Sunday, March 11, 2012

knots to km


 
  
 
1 international knot =
nautical mile per hour (by definition),
1.852 kilometres per hour (exactly),[4]
0.514 metres per second.
1.151 miles per hour (approximately).

1,852 m is the length of the internationally-agreed nautical mile. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (1,853.248 m).[5] The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, having previously used the UK Admiralty nautical mile (6,080 ft [1,853.184 m]).
Conversions between common units of speed
m/skm/hmphknotft/s
1 m/s =13.62.2369361.9438443.280840
1 km/h =0.27777810.6213710.5399570.911344
1 mph =0.447041.60934410.8689761.466667
1 knot =0.5144441.8521.15077911.687810
1 ft/s =0.30481.097280.6818180.5924841



  



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