ft/s
Foot per Second
Imperial System

Foot per Second (ft/s)

Feet per second (ft/s or fps) measures speed in ballistics, projectile motion, and some US engineering applications. One ft/s equals 0.682 mph or 1.097 km/h. Bullet velocities range from 800-4,000 ft/s. Used for wind tunnel testing and fluid mechanics.

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Conversion Factors

1 ft/s 0.3048 m/s
1 ft/s 1.0972799991 km/h
1 ft/s 30.48 cm/s
1 ft/s 0.6818181818 mph
1 ft/s 0.5924838018 kn
1 ft/s 0.0008886297 Mach
1 ft/s 1.0167033622e-9 c

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