First you must know the radius of whatever is moving in a circle. The relationship is: linear speed (meters/second) = angular speed (radians/second) x radius. The result, as hinted in the units, will be in meters/second. Converting that to meters/minute is easy; you just multiply by 60.
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Conversion: cm cubed per minute x 1.67 × 10^-8 = cubic meters per second.
revolutions are angular velocity (w), so you need to know radius (r) to convert to velocity (v) meters per second. not linear velocity. v = wr. For example 30 revs per min is 30/60 revs per second; over a 2 meter radius velocity is 30/ 60 x 2 = 1 meter per second
Angular speed = 2*pi radians per 60 seconds = pi/30 radians per second.
Oh, dude, let me break out my trusty calculator for this riveting math problem. So, 18 meters per minute is like 1800 centimeters per minute because there are 100 centimeters in a meter, right? And since there are 60 seconds in a minute, that's like 30 centimeters per second. So, 18 meters per minute equals 30 centimeters per second. Math is fun, right?
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