How many meters per second in 120 kilometers per hour?

Conversion formula

The conversion factor from kilometers per hour to meters per second is 0.277777777778, which means that 1 kilometer per hour is equal to 0.277777777778 meters per second:

1 km/h = 0.277777777778 m/s

To convert 120 kilometers per hour into meters per second we have to multiply 120 by the conversion factor in order to get the velocity amount from kilometers per hour to meters per second. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 km/h → 0.277777777778 m/s

120 km/h → V_(m/s)

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

V_(m/s) = 120 km/h × 0.277777777778 m/s

V_(m/s) = 33.33333333336 m/s

The final result is:

120 km/h → 33.33333333336 m/s

We conclude that 120 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 33.33333333336 meters per second:

120 kilometers per hour = 33.33333333336 meters per second

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 meter per second is equal to 0.029999999999976 × 120 kilometers per hour.

Another way is saying that 120 kilometers per hour is equal to 1 ÷ 0.029999999999976 meters per second.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one hundred twenty kilometers per hour is approximately thirty-three point three three three meters per second:

120 km/h ≅ 33.333 m/s

An alternative is also that one meter per second is approximately zero point zero three times one hundred twenty kilometers per hour.

Conversion table

kilometers per hour to meters per second chart

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

kilometers per hour (km/h)	meters per second (m/s)
121 kilometers per hour	33.611 meters per second
122 kilometers per hour	33.889 meters per second
123 kilometers per hour	34.167 meters per second
124 kilometers per hour	34.444 meters per second
125 kilometers per hour	34.722 meters per second
126 kilometers per hour	35 meters per second
127 kilometers per hour	35.278 meters per second
128 kilometers per hour	35.556 meters per second
129 kilometers per hour	35.833 meters per second
130 kilometers per hour	36.111 meters per second

Conversion units

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

Kilometer per hour

The kilometre per hour (American English: kilometer per hour) is a unit of speed, expressing the number of kilometres travelled in one hour. The unit symbol is km/h. Worldwide, it is the most commonly used unit of speed on road signs and car speedometers. Although the metre was formally defined in 1799, the term "kilometres per hour" did not come into immediate use – the myriametre (10,000 metres) and myriametre per hour were preferred to kilometres and kilometres per hour.

Source: Wikipedia Topic: kilometer per hour

Meter per second

Metre per second (American English: meter per second) is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity which specifies both magnitude and a specific direction), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds. The SI unit symbols are m·s−1, m s−1 or m/s sometimes (unofficially) abbreviated as "mps". Where metres per second are several orders of magnitude too slow to be convenient, such as in astronomical measurements, velocities may be given in kilometres per second, where 1 km/s is 1000 metres per second, sometimes unofficially abbreviated as "kps".

Source: Wikipedia Topic: meter per second