How many seconds in 120 minutes?

Conversion formula

The conversion factor from minutes to seconds is 60, which means that 1 minute is equal to 60 seconds:

1 min = 60 s

To convert 120 minutes into seconds we have to multiply 120 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from minutes to seconds. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 min → 60 s

120 min → T_(s)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in seconds:

T_(s) = 120 min × 60 s

T_(s) = 7200 s

The final result is:

120 min → 7200 s

We conclude that 120 minutes is equivalent to 7200 seconds:

120 minutes = 7200 seconds

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 second is equal to 0.00013888888888889 × 120 minutes.

Another way is saying that 120 minutes is equal to 1 ÷ 0.00013888888888889 seconds.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one hundred twenty minutes is approximately seven thousand two hundred seconds:

120 min ≅ 7200 s

An alternative is also that one second is approximately zero times one hundred twenty minutes.

Conversion table

minutes to seconds chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from minutes to seconds

minutes (min)	seconds (s)
121 minutes	7260 seconds
122 minutes	7320 seconds
123 minutes	7380 seconds
124 minutes	7440 seconds
125 minutes	7500 seconds
126 minutes	7560 seconds
127 minutes	7620 seconds
128 minutes	7680 seconds
129 minutes	7740 seconds
130 minutes	7800 seconds

Conversion units

The units involved in this conversion are minutes and seconds. This is how they are defined:

Minute

The minute is a unit of time or of angle. As a unit of time, the minute (symbol: min) is equal to 1⁄60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system). As a unit of angle, the minute of arc is equal to 1⁄60 of a degree, or 60 seconds (of arc). Although not an SI unit for either time or angle, the minute is accepted for use with SI units for both. The SI symbols for minute or minutes are min for time measurement, and the prime symbol after a number, e.g. 5′, for angle measurement. The prime is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time. In contrast to the hour, the minute (and the second) does not have a clear historical background. What is traceable only is that it started being recorded in the Middle Ages due to the ability of construction of "precision" timepieces (mechanical and water clocks). However, no consistent records of the origin for the division as 1⁄60 part of the hour (and the second 1⁄60 of the minute) have ever been found, despite many speculations.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: minute

Second

The second (symbol: s) (abbreviated s or sec) is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI). It is qualitatively defined as the second division of the hour by sixty, the first division by sixty being the minute. The SI definition of second is "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom". Seconds may be measured using a mechanical, electrical or an atomic clock. SI prefixes are combined with the word second to denote subdivisions of the second, e.g., the millisecond (one thousandth of a second), the microsecond (one millionth of a second), and the nanosecond (one billionth of a second). Though SI prefixes may also be used to form multiples of the second such as kilosecond (one thousand seconds), such units are rarely used in practice. The more common larger non-SI units of time are not formed by powers of ten; instead, the second is multiplied by 60 to form a minute, which is multiplied by 60 to form an hour, which is multiplied by 24 to form a day. The second is also the base unit of time in other systems of measurement: the centimetre–gram–second, metre–kilogram–second, metre–tonne–second, and foot–pound–second systems of units.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: second