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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