48 Science -- Measurement

Quartz clock is more appropriate than pendulum clock to measure time, why?

Quartz clock is more appropriate than pendulum clock to measure time, why?

Quartz clocks operate on thin quartz crystal wafers made to vibrate in hundreds of kilohertz. A pendulum clock can only make about 2 vibrations per second. A 1 % error is very significant here since 1 % of 2 is 0.02 seconds. (Basically, a quartz clock is more efficient than a pendulum clock.)

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