SV: Nor'easters in Duckburg
Olaf Solstrand
olaf at andebyonline.com
Sat Nov 8 20:20:32 CET 2003
> By the way what is 74 mph. in meters per second? Can anyone here come up
> with a formula for that?
74 miles per hour? Well, if my until now perfect dictionary has right in that a
mile is 1609 metres, that would be
x miles/hour = x * 1609 metres/hour = x * 1609 / 3600 metres/second = 0,447x
metres/second.
When x = 74,
74 mph = 74 * 0,447 m/s = 33 m/s.
Olaf
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