You thought fractions would never be good for anything!
Forget the numbers and concentrate on the units:
60 miles
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1 hour
What would you multiply this by to cancel the hours?
60 miles hours miles
-------- x ----- = -----
1 hour sec sec
What is hours/second? There are 3600 seconds in 1 hour so
hours/second = 1 hour/3600 seconds which means:
60 miles 1 hour 60 miles
-------- x -------- = --------
1 hour 3600 sec 3600 sec
Now, what would you multiply miles/sec by to get feet/sec?
60 miles feet feet
-------- x ---- = ----
3600 sec mile sec
What is feet/mile? There are 5280 feet in 1 mile so
feet/mile = 5280 feet/1 mile which means:
60 miles 5280 feet 60 x 5280 feet
-------- x --------- = --------------
3600 sec 1 mile 3600 sec
60 x 5280 = 316800
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3600
then dived the bottom into the top and you get your answer.
This works for any conversion. You just multiply the fractions that
are appropriate and you end up with the answer.
Sixty miles per hour works out at 88 feet per second.
This question seems more like math homework then about motorcycle safety...
60 miles per hour equates to 88 feet per second.
1 Mile and Hour = 1.46667 Feet per Second
Thus
60 Miles and Hour = 88.0002 Feet per Second
88 feet per second
88 feet per second.
88 feet per second.
60 mph = 88 feet per second.
60 mph equates to 88 feet per second.
60 mph is 88 feet per second.
10 mph = 14.6 feet per second.
65 mph = 95.33 feet per second.
At 60 miles per hour you will travel 528 feet every six seconds.
The ratio is 5280 feet in a mile / 3600 seconds in an hour. So 45 m/h * 5280 f/m / 3600 s/h = 66 f/s
2 feet per second = 0.6096 meters per second.
65 mph = 95.3 feet per second.
9.5333 feet
40 m/h (5280 feet/1 mile)(1 hour/3600 seconds) = 57 feet per second ( 57 feet/second ) ============================
45 mph (5280 feet/1 mile)(1 hour/3600 seconds) = 66 feet per second
100 feet per second.
14.66 feet per second.
77.73 feet every second.
A plane going 300 miles per hour is going 440 feet per second. (300 * 5280 / 60 / 60) In four hours, it will have traveled 1,200 miles, or 6,336,000 feet.
At 50 miles per hour you are traveling 73.3 feet every second.
30 mph = 30*5280 feet per hour = 30*5280/3600 feet per second = 44 feet per second (The conversion factor from mph to fps is 22/15)
At 20 mph, a car is moving at about 29.3 feet per second.
22 feet per second.