Minutes and Seconds in a Day
Calculating Minutes and Seconds in a Day
How many Minutes are there in 1 day?
There are 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in
every minute.
The minute hand of an analog clock completes one full rotation in 60
minutes.
The minute hand of an analog clock completes 24 rotations in one
day.
The total number of minutes in a day is equal to the total number of
minutes in 24 hours.
Since every hour has 60 minutes, it’s like twenty four lots of sixty
minutes that is 24 x 60 minutes.
Number of Minutes in a Day = 24 x 60
24 x 60 = 1440 minutes
So there are fourteen hundred and forty minutes in one day.
How many Seconds are there in 1 day?
The second hand of an analog clock completes one rotation every minute.
In one hour the second hand of an analog clock completes 60 full rotations.
As calculated above there are 1440 minutes in 1 day.
Since every minute has 60 seconds, it is like 1440 lots of 60 seconds that is total number of seconds in a day is equal to 1440 times 60.
Total number of seconds in a day = Total number of seconds in 1440 minutes
Total Number of Seconds in a Day = 1440 x 60
1440 x 60 = 86400 seconds
Wow! there are eighty six thousand and four hundred seconds in 1 day.