Academic disciplines are classified in many ways. Codification is one way in which the disciplineâs body of knowledge is unified into theories. Another way is paradigm development in which there is agreement on the defining, ordering, and investigation of knowledge. Physics is an example of this classification.
Confidence votes 70. A moment can be anywhere from a few seconds, up to a minute. Generally, a moment is defined as a point in time lasting from 1-3 seconds. In Old English, a moment was an exact measurement of time being 1.5 seconds or 1/40th of one minute.
There are 86,400 seconds in one 24-hour day.86,400 because there are 24 hours in one day and each hour has 60 minutes and each minute has 60 seconds so 24 hours times 60 minutes equals 1440 times 60 seconds equals 86,400.However, a sidereal day (Earth's rotational period) is slightly shorter. The sidereal day is 86164.0916 seconds long.