{"id":246,"date":"2022-11-03T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=246"},"modified":"2022-11-03T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:29:33","slug":"practical-units-used-for-measuring-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/practical-units-used-for-measuring-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical units used for measuring time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#practical-units-used-for-measuring-time\">Practical units used for measuring time:<\/a>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"#i-solar-day\">(i) Solar day:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ii-sedrial-day\">(ii) Sedrial day:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#iii-solar-year\">(iii) Solar year:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#iv-tropical-year\">(iv) Tropical year:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#v-leap-year\">(v) Leap year:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vi-lunar-month\">(vi) Lunar month:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vii-shake\">(vii) Shake:<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"practical-units-used-for-measuring-time\">Practical units used for measuring time:<\/h3>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"i-solar-day\">(i) Solar day:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the time taken by the earth to complete one rotation about its own axis w.r.t. the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ii-sedrial-day\">(ii) Sedrial day:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the time taken by the earth to complete one rotation about its own axis w.r.t. a distant star.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"iii-solar-year\">(iii) Solar year:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the time taken by the earth to complete one revolution around the sun in its orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 solar year = 365.25 average solar days = 366.25 sedrial days<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"iv-tropical-year\">(iv) Tropical year:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>The year in which there is total solar eclipse is called tropical year.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"v-leap-year\">(v) Leap year:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>The year which is divisible by 4 and in which the month of February has 29 days is called a leap year.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vi-lunar-month\">(vi) Lunar month:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the time taken by the moon to complete one revolution around the earth in its orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 lunar month = 27.3 days<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vii-shake\">(vii) Shake:<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>It is the smallest practical unit of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 shake = 10<sup>-8<\/sup> s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical units used for measuring time: (i) Solar day: It is the time taken by the earth to complete one rotation about its own axis w.r.t. the sun. (ii) Sedrial day: It is the time taken by the earth to complete one rotation about its own axis w.r.t. a distant star. (iii) Solar year: It &#8230; <a title=\"Practical units used for measuring time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/practical-units-used-for-measuring-time\/\" aria-label=\"More on Practical units used for measuring time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}