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    This document contains 7 short answer questions about atomic clocks: 3 asking about uses of atomic clocks; 1 asking to trace their history from 1940 to 1991; 1 asking what NIST stands for in the atomic clock introduced in 1991; 1 explaining what Coordinated Universal Time means; and 1 explaining how world time is standardized. The final question asks why world time is standardized in Paris rather than the US and whether the respondent would like to create atomic clocks.

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    This document contains 7 short answer questions about atomic clocks: 3 asking about uses of atomic clocks; 1 asking to trace their history from 1940 to 1991; 1 asking what NIST stands for in the atomic clock introduced in 1991; 1 explaining what Coordinated Universal Time means; and 1 explaining how world time is standardized. The final question asks why world time is standardized in Paris rather than the US and whether the respondent would like to create atomic clocks.

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    This document contains 7 short answer questions about atomic clocks: 3 asking about uses of atomic clocks; 1 asking to trace their history from 1940 to 1991; 1 asking what NIST stands for in the atomic clock introduced in 1991; 1 explaining what Coordinated Universal Time means; and 1 explaining how world time is standardized. The final question asks why world time is standardized in Paris rather than the US and whether the respondent would like to create atomic clocks.

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    Short Answer Questions

    1. List 3 uses for atomic clocks.

    2. Briefly trace the history of the atomic clock from 1940 until 1991.

    3. What do the letters NIST in the name of the atomic clock introduced in
    1991 stand for?

    4. Explain what the term Coordinated Universal Time means.

    5. Explain how world time is standardized.

    6. Why do you think that world time is standardized in Paris, France


    instead of somewhere in the United States?

    7. Would you like to be a scientist involved in creating better atomic


    clocks? Explain why or why not.

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