- Human timescales
This is a table of
time periods relevant tohuman being s.0.1 to 0.2 s:
*0.1reaction time ,blinking
*0.15 seconds -- recommended maximum time delay fortelephone service0.2 to 1 s
*0.2 to 0.67 seconds -- a beat of moderndance music
* average reading or talking speed 120word s/min is 0.5 s/word
* 1/70 to 1/120 min = 0.5 to 1 s -heart rate period,frequency 2 to 1Hertz
*Sensory memory up to 1 s.1-10 s:
*breath ing period
* reading/talking speed, 1-5 s/sentence
*Short term memory up to 10 to 15 s10-100 s
* 60 seconds = oneminute 1,000 s:
* 3600 seconds = onehour , onelesson 10,000 s:
* 28,600 seconds = 8 hours -- one workday in most Western countries
* 86,400 seconds = oneday = 24 hours,sleep ,awake 100,000 s:
* 604,800 seconds =week = 7 days (with oneweekend )1,000,000 s:
* 30 days length of themonth ,Biorhythm 10,000,000 s, 116 days to 3.2 years:
* 9month humangestation
* 31,560,000 seconds =year 100,000,000 s, 3.2 to 32 years:
* adecade
* an humangeneration 1,000,000,000 s:
* 2,400,000,000 seconds = 75 years --average life span in thefirst world
* 3,156,000,000 seconds =century See also
*
human scale
*orders of magnitude (time)
*rhythm
*tempo
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