Time interval
A time interval - also time interval , time segment , time span , period , while , time phase or time period - is a more or less extended part of time as duration. A long time interval is also known as a long time .
A time interval, viewed as a section on a time scale , has a beginning and an end, each of which can be determined by a point in time . Thus, a time interval can be understood as a time difference in the same reference system and a metrologically determined time span can be used for the time measurement , such as B. with an interval counter . The time difference measured for the time interval is often given as. The term interval goes back to the Latin term inter vallos for the space “between the palisades ”.
In addition to the general basic time intervals - such as between two sunrises as full day , or between two Sonnentiefstständen as a tropical year or the time interval the nuclear seconds - are in today's science numerous specific time periods measured: For example, the average time between two radioactive decay to calculating the decay rate of a substance, or between two cell divisions to calculate the growth rate of a tissue or the time in which a Foucault pendulum an angle of one degree travels to determine the earth's rotation .
The in modern physics shortest period of significance is after the physicist Max Planck called Planck time (about 10 -43 s), which is also the definition limit of time continuum represents. The longest physically determinable period of time is the time that has passed from the Big Bang to the present day as the age of the world , approximately 14 billion years (14 Ga) or 4.4 · 10 17 seconds. The age of the earth is estimated at about 4.6 billion years (4.6 Ga), its history is divided into different periods of time (see geological time scale ).
A neuropsychologically important period of time is the duration of that moment that we subjectively experience as the present and in which we grasp impressions as now together. According to various studies, this span should last around three seconds and be quantified in around one hundred parts , each comprising intervals of around 30 ms (and thus above the synaptic latency period of excitation transmission at fast chemical synapses). For example, noises up to 0.03 seconds short can be differentiated according to their sequence and resolved over time as a sequence (for temporal reference see also personal equation ).
| Time interval | meaning |
|---|---|
| shake | 10 nanoseconds, outdated time unit for atomic processes |
| Second (s) | Basic unit of the basic quantity time in the ( SI ) system of units |
| moment | quite short, not precisely determined time span |
| moment | indefinitely similar to moment ( medieval momentum was 1 ⁄ 40 hour) |
| Minute (min) | 60 seconds |
| School lesson | 45, 50, 55, 60, 67.5 or 90 minutes |
| Hour ( h , lat.hora) | 60 minutes |
| Glass | 4-hour watch on seagoing vessels |
| Day ( d , lat. Dies) | 24 hours |
| week | 7 days |
| month | 28 or 29 for a leap year, 30 or 31 days |
| quarter | 1 ⁄ 4 year (3 months) |
| Trimester | 3 months (prefix tri , as in semester , based on the number of months) |
| Tertial | 4 months |
| semester | 6 months (sex menses) |
| Year ( a , lat.annum) | 12 months, 365 or 366 days for a leap year |
| Biennium | 2 years |
| Olympics | 4 years |
| Quinquennium or Lustrum ( year five ) | 5 years |
| Hebdomade or week of the year (seven of the year) | 7 years |
| Octaeteris | 8 years |
| Decade or decade ( decade ) | ten years |
| Year dozen (a dozen years) | 12 years |
| Centennium or hectode ( century ) | 100 years |
| Millennium ( millennium ) | 1,000 years |
| Million years ( Ma ) | 1,000,000 years |
| Billion years ( Ga ) | 1,000,000,000 years |
See also
- Magnitude (time)
- Unit of measure prefixes
- Time window
- Jiffy
- reaction time
- Tenths of a second
- Time perception
literature
- Dietrich Pelte: Physics for Biologists . Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-21162-4 .
- D. Sautter, H. Weinerth: Lexicon Electronics and Microelectronics . Springer, Berlin 1993, ~ 10 positions [1]
- Albert Schödlbauer : Geodetic Astronomy: Basics and Concepts . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-015148-0 , ~ 20 characters [2]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ in the 13th century for example Roger Bacon - see Opera quaedam hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi. Volume VI, (Ed. Robert Steele) Compotus Frateri Rogeri. Oxford University Press, p. 48: "... in momenta quorum quadraginta faciunt horam" (... in momenta, forty of which make up one hour ); Digitized