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#1 2012-12-31 23:28:57
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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 23:45:48
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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 2013-01-01 00:51:45
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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 2013-01-01 01:03:09
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That is correct.
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#5 2013-01-01 01:13:54
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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 2013-01-01 01:17:33
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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 2013-01-01 01:26:57
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Then 22 is the number of what?
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#9 2013-01-01 01:36:38
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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 2013-01-01 03:13:53
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Actually, it is neither. We need to be given a time period on which we count the right angles...
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#11 2013-01-01 04:32:36
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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 03:00–04:00 and 09:00–10:00. So it's 22 times every twelve hours.
#12 2013-01-01 05:34:26
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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 .
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#13 2013-01-01 05:53:27
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And these are the times at which the hands are perpendicular (using 12-hour notation):
#14 2013-01-01 16:36:47
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Got it! Happy New Year!
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