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    The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International...
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  • The metre per second squared or metre per square second is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is...
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  • Cubic metre per second or cubic meter per second in American English (symbol m3 ⋅ s−1 or m3/s) is the unit of volumetric flow rate in the International...
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    metres per second (approximately 1 billion kilometres per hour; 700 million miles per hour). It is exact because, by international agreement, a metre...
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  • their derivation: for example, the square metre (m2), the SI derived unit of area; and the kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m3 or kg⋅m−3), the SI derived unit...
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  • Metre per hour (American spelling: meter per hour) is a metric unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (Vector (geometry)). Its symbol is m/h or m·h−1...
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  • the metre per second squared. Abbreviations include ft/s2, ft/sec2, ft/s/s, ft/sec/sec, and ft s−2. Gal Gravitational acceleration Metre per second squared...
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    millimetre to one cubic metre) Square foot Therm, a unit of natural gas approximately equal to 100 cubic feet Cubic metre per second IEEE Standard Letter...
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  • velocity in metres per second. Some units have their own names, such as the newton unit of force which is defined as kilogram times metres per second squared...
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    momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-second corresponds to a one-newton force applied for one second. F → ⋅ t = Δ m v → {\displaystyle...
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    at one metre per second squared. The unit is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically his second law of...
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  • metre per second. Abbreviations include in/s, in/sec, ips, and less frequently in s−1. 1 inch per second is equivalent to: = 0.0254 metres per second...
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    9-1005-298-12 mentions the approximate maximum range of 3,820-metre (4,180 yd) at 856.2-metre-per-second (2,809 ft/s) muzzle velocity. Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm...
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    proportional to the object's mass. The SI unit for acceleration is metre per second squared (m⋅s−2, m s 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {\tfrac {m}{s^{2}}} }...
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    unit. For example, the coherent derived SI unit of velocity is the metre per second, with the symbol m/s.: 139  The base and coherent derived units of...
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    1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), 1852.000 metres per hour (exactly), 0.51444 metres per second (approximately), 1.15078 miles per hour (approximately)...
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  • Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald...
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  • m/s is the symbol for metre per second, a unit of both speed and velocity. example: speed of sound=340 m/s. M/S or m/s may also refer to: Motor ship, also...
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    henries per metre (H/m, equivalent to N/A2). The SI unit of charge, the coulomb, was then defined as "the quantity of electricity carried in 1 second by a...
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    accelerations up to 1 metre per second squared, and the eight neighbours rule allows accelerations up to √2 metres per second squared. A more realistic...
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    momentum is the kilogram metre per second (kg⋅m/s), which is dimensionally equivalent to the newton-second. Newton's second law of motion states that...
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  • 1 t⋅m/s2 = 103 N = 1 kN Energy: sthène-metre = kilojoule, 1 sn⋅m = 1 t⋅m2/s2 = 103 J = 1 kJ Power: sthène-metre per second = kilowatt, 1 sn⋅m/s = 1 t⋅m2/s3...
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  • acceleration, with dimension of length per time squared and units of metre per second squared (m·s−2). It is normally applied to forces other than gravity...
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    the metre per second (m/s), but the most common unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour (km/h) or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour...
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    unit of impulse is the newton-second (N⋅s), and the dimensionally equivalent unit of momentum is the kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). The corresponding...
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  • joule-second (J⋅s). In SI base units the joule-second becomes kilogram-meter squared-per second or kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Dimensional Analysis of the joule-second yields...
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  • set of seven base units. The UCUM base units are the metre for measurement of length, the second for time, the gram for mass, the coulomb for charge,...
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    Although the metre was formally defined in 1799, the term "kilometres per hour" did not come into immediate use – the myriametre (10,000 metres) and myriametre...
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  • (energy per unit time per unit area), and the SI units of measure are joules per second per square metre, or equivalently, watts per square metre. The SI...
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    necessary. Cycle per second Normalized frequency (digital signal processing) Order of magnitude (angular velocity) Radian per metre "6.1: Rotation Angle...
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