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15 minutes per minute

  1. Jul 25, 2007 #1

    Jimmy Snyder

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    What goes at the rate of 15 seconds per second?
     
    Jimmy Snyder, Jul 25, 2007
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  3. Jul 25, 2007 #2

    dontdisturbmycircles

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    15x fast forward on my DVD player
     
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    dontdisturbmycircles, Jul 25, 2007
  4. Jul 25, 2007 #3

    daveb

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    The hour hand on a 24 hour clock
     
    daveb, Jul 25, 2007
  5. Jul 25, 2007 #4

    Jimmy Snyder

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    dontdisturbmycircles might be right, I never timed it. But daveb is certainly right. The answer I was looking for was the earth spinning on its axis. 15 seconds of arc per 1 second of time.
     
    Jimmy Snyder, Jul 25, 2007
  6. Aug 2, 2007 #5

    Schrodinger's Dog

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    There's a perfectly good reason why no one times clocks. It's based on assumption but it's pretty reliable :smile: even if you didn't have acces to any technology, you'd quickly be able to see whether your clock was accurate, just by going outside once in a blue moon, or if you worked by seeing the expression on your bosses face, either delight at you being so prompt or scorn at you being so late.
     
    Schrodinger's Dog, Aug 2, 2007
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