Speed of the minute hand in rad per sec.
Geometry
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What is the speed of the minute hand in a clock. State your answer in radians per second.
The answer is 0.001746.
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1 solution
The minute hand takes 60 minutes to travel 2 pi radians. Hence the speed is 2 pi / 3600 radians per second = 0.001746 radians per second.