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Answer: one trillionth of a second</h3>
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Work Shown:
1 minute = 60 seconds
60 minutes = 60*60 = 3600 seconds
1 hour = 3600 seconds
1 hour = 3.6 * 10^15 picoseconds
3600 seconds = 3.6 * 10^15 picoseconds
3600/(3.6 * 10^15) seconds = (3.6 * 10^15)/(3.6 * 10^15) picoseconds
(3.6 * 10^3)/(3.6 * 10^15) seconds = 1 picosecond
(3.6/3.6) * 10^(3-15) seconds = 1 picosecond
1 * 10^(-12) seconds = 1 picosecond
1/(10^12) seconds = 1 picosecond
1/(1,000,000,000,000) seconds = 1 picosecond
one trillionth of a second = 1 picosecond
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side note:
we can go from
1/(1,000,000,000,000) seconds = 1 picosecond
to
1 second = 1,000,000,000,000 picoseconds
after multiplying both sides by 1,000,000,000,000
The number 1,000,000,000,000 is read out as "one trillion". The number of zeros (12) is due to the exponent of 12 in 10^12.
