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State or define the following term:

Second

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“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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Chapter 1: Measurements and Experimentation - Unit 1 Exercise 1 (B) Subjective Questions

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