How many feet per second in 1 mile per hour?

Conversion formula

The conversion factor from miles per hour to feet per second is 1.4666666666667, which means that 1 mile per hour is equal to 1.4666666666667 feet per second:

1 mph = 1.4666666666667 ft/s

To convert 1 mile per hour into feet per second we have to multiply 1 by the conversion factor in order to get the velocity amount from miles per hour to feet per second. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 mph → 1.4666666666667 ft/s

1 mph → V_(ft/s)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the velocity V in feet per second:

V_(ft/s) = 1 mph × 1.4666666666667 ft/s

V_(ft/s) = 1.4666666666667 ft/s

The final result is:

1 mph → 1.4666666666667 ft/s

We conclude that 1 mile per hour is equivalent to 1.4666666666667 feet per second:

1 mile per hour = 1.4666666666667 feet per second

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 foot per second is equal to 0.68181818181818 × 1 mile per hour.

Another way is saying that 1 mile per hour is equal to 1 ÷ 0.68181818181818 feet per second.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one mile per hour is approximately one point four six seven feet per second:

1 mph ≅ 1.467 ft/s

An alternative is also that one foot per second is approximately zero point six eight two times one mile per hour.

Conversion table

miles per hour to feet per second chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from miles per hour to feet per second

miles per hour (mph)	feet per second (ft/s)
2 miles per hour	2.933 feet per second
3 miles per hour	4.4 feet per second
4 miles per hour	5.867 feet per second
5 miles per hour	7.333 feet per second
6 miles per hour	8.8 feet per second
7 miles per hour	10.267 feet per second
8 miles per hour	11.733 feet per second
9 miles per hour	13.2 feet per second
10 miles per hour	14.667 feet per second
11 miles per hour	16.133 feet per second

Conversion units

The units involved in this conversion are miles per hour and feet per second. This is how they are defined:

Mile per hour

Miles per hour (abbreviated mph, MPH or mi/h) is an imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of statute miles covered in one hour. Although kilometres per hour is now the most widely used measure of speed, miles per hour remains the standard unit for speed limits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda and Puerto Rico, although the latter two use kilometres for long distances.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: mile per hour

Foot per second

The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s, or sec). The corresponding unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the metre per second. Abbreviations include ft/s, ft/sec and fps, and the rarely used scientific notation ft s−1.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: foot per second