Question by Noelle: What conversion factor is used to convert 10 hours to seconds?
What conversion factor is used to convert 10 hours to seconds?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Best answer:
Answer by billrussell42
it’s very easy, just watch the dimensions
10 hrs x 60 min/hr x 60 sec/min = 36000 seconds.
note how the units cancel out.
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If you will end up using physical factors in life, mostly related to time, you will see the number 3600 very often. This is the number of seconds in an hour.
So, the conversion factor is 3600, per hour, times 10 hours = 36000
There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. So, there are 60 x 60 = 3600 seconds in an hour — and the number of seconds in your problem is 3600 x 10 = 36,000.