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because a minute is faster than an hour.

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Why minute hand of clock is longer than hour hand?

so you can tell them apart


Is the Big Hand the Hour Hand?

Yes, the Big Hand on a clock is typically the Hour Hand. It indicates the current hour on the clock face, while the Little Hand, or Minute Hand, indicates the minutes.


What is the minute hand on the clock?

The long hand


Which hand on a clock is the minute hand?

It is the long hand.


Which has more momentum a second hand on a clock or a minute hand on a clock?

the second hand


What is the time period of the minute hand on a clock?

The time period of a nimute hand on the clock is one minute since it takes a minute for it to complete one oscillation, ie., one complete cycle of the clock.


How many degrees does the minute hand of a clock turn in 1 hour?

The minute hand of a clock turns about 360 degrees each hour.


What is a minute hand on a clock?

The minute hand is the largest hand on most analogue clocks. At 3 o'clock on a 12-hour clock, the minute hand is pointing straight up to the 12. It measures time to the nearest minute by advancing one of the small minute hash marks every 60 seconds. Every time the second hand makes one full sweep of the clock face, the minute hand advances one of the minute marks. The second hand is the fastest moving hand on a standard analogue clock, making one full sweep every 60 seconds.


What is the big hand on the clock called?

The long hand is called the minute hand, the shorter fat one is called the hour hand. Based on historical design the BIG hand is the hour hand because an hour is bigger than a minute. Function first, then form. Traditionally clocks had fatter hands for hour and thinner hands for minute, thus BIG is hour and LITTLE is minute. Yes the minute hand is usually longer than the hour hand but on most clocks the hour hand is larger not just shorter. Don't confuse long, big, little, and short.


Is there another word for clock hands?

Hour hand and minute hand.


Who invented the minute hand and hour hand?

Whoever invented the clock.


What is the speed of a clock's second hand?

A clock's second hand makes one complete revolution each minute. Thus, by definition, it is rotating at one revolution per minute or one RPM. That's its "rotational velocity" and it is the same no matter how big or small the clock might be. The actual velocity that the tip of the second hand might trace out as it revolves around the center of the clock will vary with the length of the second hand. The longer the hand, the faster the tip moves around the circumference.