th) What are the units of measurin
time?
Answers
Explanation:
the base unit for time is the second (the other SI units are: metre for length, kilogram for mass, ampere for electric current, kelvin for temperature, candela for luminous intensity, and mole for the amount of substance)
SI Units
The International System of Units (Système Internationale d’Unités or SI) defines seven base units of measurement from which all other SI units are derived. The base unit for time is the second (the other SI units are: metre for length, kilogram for mass, ampere for electric current, kelvin for temperature, candela for luminous intensity, and mole for the amount of substance). The second can be abbreviated as s or sec.
Historically, a second was defined by reference to longer periods of time – minutes, hours and days – e.g. as 1/86,400 of a mean solar day (one day being 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds = 86,400 seconds). This is sometimes known as an ephemeris second (an ephemeris is a table showing the positions of the heavenly bodies on various dates in a regular sequence).
Since the establishment of the SI system in 1967, a second is technically defined in more precise and absolute atomic terms as “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom”. In 1997, this definition was made even more specific with the stipulation that this refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0° Kelvin.
Given that the Earth is very gradually slowing, and the mean solar day on which the original definition of a second was based has not remained the same, its definition is arguably a historical and cultural choice, even an arbitrary one. But at least the atomic definition we now use, whatever its provenance, will always remain constant. All other units of time measurement are now derived from the second. In fact, because we can measure time more accurately than length, even the SI measurement of the metre is defined in terms of the distance travelled by light in 0.000000003335640952 seconds.