Q: Is a second the SI base unit of time? ¶
A: Yes, and commonly understood and historically defined as 1/86,400 of a day - this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each.
Q: Are seconds usually counted in hours and minutes? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are seconds : an hour is 3600 seconds? ¶
A: Yes, a day is 86,400 seconds, a week is 604,800 seconds; a year is about 31.
Q: Is a second 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that gets an atom of cesium-133 to vibrate between two energy state? ¶
A: Yes, and ,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that gets an atom of cesium-133 to vibrate between two energy states.
Q: Was a second thus defined as "the fraction 1⁄31,556,92"? ¶
A: Yes, and hus defined as "the fraction 1⁄31,556,925".
Q: Was a second selected to correspond exactly to the length of the ephemeris second previously defined? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are seconds : a stone falls about 4.9 meters from rest in one second? ¶
A: Yes, a pendulum of length about one meter has a swing of one second, so pendulum clocks have pendulums about a meter long; the fastest human sprinters run 10 meters in a second; an ocean wave in deep water travels about 23 meters in one second; sound travels about 343 meters in one second in air; light takes a fraction over one second to reach Earth from the surface of the Moon.
Q: Are seconds not exactly equal to atomic seconds is UT1? ¶
A: Yes, and a form of universal time.
Q: Was a second redefined in terms of a year relative to that epoch? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is a second usually denoted in decimal notation, i.e? ¶
A: Yes, 2.01 seconds, or two and one hundredth seconds.
Q: Is a second usually counted in tenths or hundredths? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is a second counted in milliseconds? ¶
A: Yes, and microseconds , nanoseconds , and sometimes smaller units of a second.
Q: Is a second added to clock time every once in a while to keep clocks in sync with Earth's rotation? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are seconds an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection? ¶
A: Yes, and dated between 1560 and 1570.
Q: Is a second a 1-gigahertz microprocessor which has a cycle time of 1 nanosecond? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is a second also part of several other units of measurement like velocity? ¶
A: Yes, and acceleration, and frequency.
Q: Is a second part of other units, such as frequency measured in hertz , velocity and acceleration? ¶
A: Yes, The metric system unit becquerel, a measure of radioactive decay, is measured in inverse seconds.
Q: Are seconds usually expressed as minutes and seconds, or hours, minutes and seconds of clock time, separated by colons, such as 11:23:24, or 45:23? ¶
A: Yes, It rarely makes sense to express longer periods of time like hours or days in seconds, because they are awkwardly large numbers.