Picosecond
The picosecond (symbol: ps) is a standard unit of measuring time. It is equal to 10−12 seconds. It is one trillionth of a second, or 0.000 000 000 001 seconds.
1 picosecond contains 1000 femtoseconds. There are 1000 picoseconds in 1 nanosecond.
- Notation
- 10-10 seconds is 100 picoseconds.
- 10-9 seconds is 1 nanosecond.
- Examples
- 1 picosecond is the half-life of a bottom quark.
- 10 picoseconds after the Big Bang, electromagnetism became its own force.
- It takes light about 3.3 picoseconds to travel 1 millimetre.
- It takes a common 3.0-gigahertz computer 330 picoseconds to add two integers together.
