Degrees are measures of angles. Picture a Pizza cut into 360 tiny pieces. The point on the end of each piece has an angle of exactly one degree because a circle has 360 degrees in it. Sometimes im math, science, cartography, navigation, and engineering, we have to be more exact than degrees, so we use minutes. There are 60 minutes in one degree, so a pizza cut into minutes would have 21600 pieces. If you need to get even smaller,there are seconds. There are (you guessed it) 60 seconds per minute. Degrees and minutes are used in geography to define world coordinates. The globe is has a line running from the North Ple to the South Pole running through London, England called the Prime Meridian. From here, other lines are drawn from north to south one degree away from each other, labeled one degree, two gegree, ad so on until the 180 degree line is drawn on the opposite side of the world. Then it stars going down until it reaches zero again at the Prime Meridian. These are the longitudes. Latitudes start with zero at the equator. Latitudes are made up of rings moving up the earth until 90 degrees at the North Pole. The same going south to the South Pole. Between degrees, there are minutes and seconds, so locations on earth can be pin pointed very acurately.
Minutes (1/60 of a degree) and seconds (1/60 of a minutes). After that you use decimals of a second.
For every degree of longitude, is divided into 60 minutes. Each minute is then divided into 60 seconds. Since 1 degree equals 60 nautical miles. Then 1 minute equals 1 nautical mile Then 1 second equals approximately 35 yards across.
There are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute, so a degree has 3600 seconds. These are arc minutes and seconds, no relation to time measurements. A circle has 360 degrees.
Minutes, degrees, and seconds are units used to measure coordinates in longitude and latitude. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute is further divided into 60 seconds. For example, a coordinate might be expressed as 45 degrees 30 minutes 20 seconds, indicating a specific point on the Earth's surface in the coordinate system.
A "line" of latitude is a circle that goes all the way around the earth, parallel to the equator. The "line" is made up of all the points on Earth that have the same latitude, and any latitude you name makes a different "line". The"line" is not divided up into any parts. Latitude is an angle. Latitudes are described in units of angles, usually degrees and parts of a degree. There are 60 minutes in one degree of angle, and 60 seconds in one minute of angle.
1 degree = 60 minutes 1 minute = 60 seconds 1 degree = 3,600 seconds
1 degree = 60 minutes 1 minute = 60 seconds 1 degree = 3,600 seconds
1 degree = 60 minutes, 1 mnute = 60 seconds so 1 degree = 3600 seconds.
Minutes (1/60 of a degree) and seconds (1/60 of a minutes). After that you use decimals of a second.
1 minute = 60 seconds1 degree = 60 minutes = 3,600 seconds
There are 60 minute to each degree and 60 secons to each minute. 1 degree = 60 minutes 60 minutes = 3600 seconds
It is a longitude. The "E" means east of the chosen reference point (meridian) - nowadays, usually the Greenwich meridian is used. Minutes and seconds are subdivisions of a degree; 1 degree = 60 minutes, and 1 minute = 60 seconds.
For every degree of longitude, is divided into 60 minutes. Each minute is then divided into 60 seconds. Since 1 degree equals 60 nautical miles. Then 1 minute equals 1 nautical mile Then 1 second equals approximately 35 yards across.
A degree is traditionally divided into 60 parts called "minutes", each minute is divided into 60 parts called "seconds". To distinguish from the time units, which are of course unrelated, you can also call those divisions arc-minutes, and arc-seconds. It is, however, also quite common to just specificy fractions of a degree in decimals, as in, the Earth's axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees. And we can also say this in Mathematical terms that: 1 degree=60 minutes We also know that : 1 minute=60 seconds it means: 1 degree = (60*60)=3600 seconds It means that minutes are the smaller unit for measurements of angle in "D.M.S system" than the degree and seconds are definitely even smaller than minutes. D.M.S system = Degree, minutes and seconds system
Minutes (and seconds) are finer subdivisions of degrees. There are 60 minutes in a degree, so a minute represents 1/60th of a degree.
The latitude and longitude are input in degrees, so you might need to convert to degrees from degrees:minutes:seconds. There are 60 seconds in 1 minute and 60 minutes in 1 degree. So, for example: 65:45:36 south latitude converts to -(65 degrees + (45 minutes * (1 degree/60 minutes)) + (36 seconds * (1 minute/60 seconds) * (1 degree/60 minutes))) = -65.76 degrees latitude
1 degree = 60 minutes 30 degrees = 30 deg * 60 minutes/deg = 1800 minutes 1 minute = 60 seconds 1800 minutes = 1800 minutes * 60 sec/min = 108000 seconds