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Fast and
Slow Clocks
Mayank Bomb, Previously Sr. Architect, Intel Corporation,
Hillsboro, USA with 5 Patented Inventions in Computer
Architecture
ECE Graduate, University of Texas Austin, USA
B. Tech. EE, IIT Varanasi

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Get this Terminology- Important!!!

•If a clock's hands are moving, it is running. This is the
mechanical sense of run, like a car or a pump or a
meter.
•Fast and slow refer to the displayed time:
• If a clock's hands take 59 minutes to complete one hour, it
is running fast. If the clock displays 5:00 and it's known to
be 4:59, the clock is (or is running) fast.
• If a clock's hands take 61 minutes to complete one hour, it
is running slow. If the clock displays 5:00 and it's known to
be 5:01, the clock is (or is running) slow.

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A watch which gains time uniformly is 5 minutes slow at
8’O clock in the morning on Sunday and is 5 minutes 48
seconds fast at 8 PM the following Sunday. When was it
correct?

168+12, 54/5, 250/3 hrs = 3

days 11:20
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A clock is set right at 8 AM. The clock gains 10 minutes in

24 hours. What will be the true time when the clock
indicates 1 PM the following day?

29->1680 min = 28:48

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How much inaccurate does a watch become per day, if its
hands coincide every 64 minutes?

64*22 = 1408, 32 min

, 32 min

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The inhabitants of planet Mars measure time in different hours and minutes from earth. Their day
has 36 hours with each hour being 120 minutes. The dials of their clocks show 36 hours. What is
the angle between the hour hand and the minutes hand of a Martian clock at 9:48? Angle around
a Martian point is 720 degrees.

100 Martian degrees

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2 clocks A and B are now showing 3’o clock. Clock B is 2 mins/hour faster than clock
A. How long will it take them to show the same time again?

360 hrs on analogue and

720 hrs on digital7
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1st clock gains 5 mins every 1 hour. 2nd clock loses 5 mins every 1
hour. After how many hours both will show same time again?

72 hrs on analogue and

144 hrs on digital
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A clock loses exactly 20 minutes every hour. It is now
showing 4:00 am and was correct at midnight. The
clock stopped 4 hours ago, what is the correct time
now?

10 am
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Next Class: Speed Problems

Two Indian tourists cycled towards each other, one from point A and the other
from point B. The first tourist left point A 6 hr later than the second left point
B, and it turned out on their meeting that he had traveled 12 km less than the
second tourist. After their meeting, they kept cycling with the same speed, and
the first tourist arrived at B 8 hrs later and the second arrived at A 9 hrs later.
Find the speed of faster tourist

And then move on to relative speed, trains, and boats …

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