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Question
State or define the following term:
Second
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Solution
“A second is defined as 1/86400 the part of a mean solar day.”
OR
Second may also be defined “as to be equal to the duration of9,192,631,770 vibrations corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of cesium – 133 atoms in the ground state.”
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