What is 61s in Tropical Years?

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What is 61 Seconds (61s) in Tropical Years (at)?

What is 61s in at? Convert 61 Seconds (61s) to Tropical Years (at) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Seconds to Tropical Years

Formula
at = s / 31556930
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Tropical Years, divide the number of Seconds by 31.6 million
Seconds (s) in 1 Tropical Year
There are 31556930 Seconds in 1 Tropical Year
Tropical Years (at) in 1 Second
There are 0 Tropical Years in 1 Second

Unit Information

Second
/ˈsɛk(ə)nd/
Symbol: s
Unit System: SI

What is the Second?

The second is the SI base unit for time and has the symbol s.

The second is commonly understood to be 1/86400 of a day; there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.

Analog and digital watches and clocks almost all measure and display the progression of time via the use of a second counter / hand - and is generally considered the lowest denomination of time.

The earliest display and use of seconds was in the last half of the 16th century. Prior to this, it was not considered accurate enough to measure in seconds as a mechanical device was needed to ensure consistency.

In 1656, a Dutch scientist invented the first pendulum clock that measured seconds. His name was Christiaan Huygens.

Tropical Year
/ˈtrɒpɪk(ə)l jɪə,jəː/
Symbol: at
Unit System: SI

What is the Tropical Year?

The tropical year is a unit of time that is a multiple of an SI unit. We have used the symbol at.

The average tropical year up to the year 2000 was 365.2422 days of 86400 seconds.

The phrase “tropical” comes from the Greek for “turn”; tropikos. Following this, and where the “turn” referred to is the same as that defining the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer (the extreme latitudes North and South where the sun can still appear directly overhead or perpendicular to the Earth’s surface); a tropical year is known as the time it takes the sun to complete a full cycle of seasons and return to the same relative position to the observer on Earth.

In 1627, Johannes Kepler used the findings of Tycho Brahe and Waltherus (the Rudolphine Tables) to establish the mean tropical year as 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds.


Conversion Tables for Seconds (s) to Tropical Years (at)