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#1 2012-12-31 00:28:57
Clock Problem
Question 1: How to find the angle between the two hands of the clock at a given time?
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#2 2012-12-31 00:45:48
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Re: Clock Problem
Hi Agnishom
The angle is |h*30°-(m/2)*11°-(s/120)*11°|
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#3 2012-12-31 01:51:45
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Sorry, it had been too stupid question
A clock is set right at 7 am. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 hrs. What will the approximate time when the clock indicates 1 pm on the following day?
Is it 12:47:30 pm?
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#4 2012-12-31 02:03:09
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Re: Clock Problem
That is correct.
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#5 2012-12-31 02:13:54
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Now, how do I show that the hands of the clock come in right angles 22 times?
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#6 2012-12-31 02:17:33
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They do not. They are at right angles much more times. 46 times, I would say...
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#7 2012-12-31 02:26:57
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Then 22 is the number of what?
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#8 2012-12-31 02:31:52
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Re: Clock Problem
Maybe that is for 90 measured clockwise (the rest 270) ?
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#9 2012-12-31 02:36:38
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Re: Clock Problem
Changed my mind. I think it is 22.
00.15
0045
01.15 and a bit
01.45 and a bit
.......
2 per hour
but as the hour hand advances you loose the last hour
so 11 hours at 2 per hour.
Stefy: Is your clock a 24 hour one? ie 23 x 2 = 46
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#10 2012-12-31 04:13:53
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Re: Clock Problem
Actually, it is neither. We need to be given a time period on which we count the right angles...
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#11 2012-12-31 05:32:36
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Re: Clock Problem
I think the problem is for a 12-hour period. The simplest way is to count how many times the hands are at right angles in every hourly.
00:00 to 01:00 2
01:00 to 02:00 2
02:00 to 03:00 2 (including 3 o'clock)
03:00 to 04:00 1
04:00 to 05:00 2
05:00 to 06:00 2
06:00 to 07:00 2
07:00 to 08:00 2
08:00 to 09:00 2 (including 9 o'clock)
09:00 to 10:00 1
10:00 to 11:00 2
11:00 to 12:00 2
The hands are at right angles twice every hourly except for the hours 03:0004:00 and 09:0010:00. So it's 22 times every twelve hours.
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#12 2012-12-31 06:34:26
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Re: Clock Problem
Oh, here's the math.
The angular velocity of the minute hand is 6° per minute and that of the hour hand 0.5° per minute. The difference in their angular velocities is therefore 5.5° per minute. Starting at twelve o'clock, the time taken for the hands to be first at right angles with each other is 90/5.5 minutes. Thereafter the minute hand has to turn through 180° to be next at right angles with the hour hand; the time taken for this is 180/5.5 minutes. If is the time in minutes at which the hands are perpendicular for the th time after twelve o'clock, we have the formula:
There are 720 minutes in half a day. The largest integer
for which is .Happy New Year!
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#13 2012-12-31 06:53:27
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Re: Clock Problem
And these are the times at which the hands are perpendicular (using 12-hour notation):
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#14 2012-12-31 17:36:47
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Got it! Happy New Year!
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