Convert 1,500 Feet per Second to Mach
How fast is 1,500 feet per second? What is 1.5 thousand feet per second in Mach? 1,500 fps to mach conversion.
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1,500 Feet per Second ≈
Mach 1.3800181
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Result in Plain English
1,500 feet per second is equal to about Mach 1.38.
To a Percentage
1,500 feet per second ≈ 138% of a Mach.
Result as a Fraction
1,500 feet per second
= 4,572⁄3,313 Mach
In Scientific Notation
1,500 feet per second
= 1.5 x 103 feet per second
≈ 1.38002 x 100 Mach
Feet per Second
A foot per second is a unit of speed. Something traveling at one foot per second is traveling exactly 0.3048 meters per second, or about 0.682 miles per hour.Common abbreviations: ft/s, fps
Mach
Mach is the ratio of an object's speed to the speed of sound. For example, something traveling at Mach 5 is traveling at 5 times the speed of sound. The speed of sound varies depending on many factors. In dry air, at 0 degrees Celsius, the speed of sound is about 331.3 meters per second.