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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SI derived unit (redirect from Metre squared per second)
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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Speed of light (redirect from 299,792,458 metres per second)
equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour). It is exact...
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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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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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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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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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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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MKS units (redirect from Metre-kilogram-second system of units)
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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that the metre (m) and the second (s) are base units; then the kilometre (km) and the hour (h) are non-coherent derived units. The metre per second (mps)...
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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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Cubic foot (redirect from Cubic foot per second)
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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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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Specific force (redirect from Force per unit mass)
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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names e.g. watt, volt, lux, etc. or defined in terms of others, e.g. metre per second. The units with special names derived from the ampere are: There are...
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Acceleration (redirect from Second temporal derivative of displacement)
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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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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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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per day (cpd) and cycles per year (cpy). Cycles per instruction (CPI) Cycles per metre Heinrich Hertz Instructions per cycle (IPC) Instructions per second...
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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. 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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Knot (unit) (redirect from Nautical mile per hour)
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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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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The candela per square metre (symbol: cd/m2) is the unit of luminance in the International System of Units (SI). The unit is based on the candela, the...
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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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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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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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