Convert 1,700 Feet per Second to Meters per Second
How fast is 1,700 feet per second? What is 1.7 thousand feet per second in meters per second? 1,700 fps to m/s conversion.
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1,700 Feet per Second =
518.16 Meters per Second
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Result in Plain English
1,700 feet per second is equal to about 518 meters per second.
In Scientific Notation
1,700 feet per second
= 1.7 x 103 feet per second
= 5.1816 x 102 meters per second
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
Meters per Second
A meter per second is a unit of speed. One meter per second is exactly 3.6 kilometers per hour, or about 2.237 miles per hour.Common abbreviations: m/s, mps