Megahertz to Degrees Per Second (MHz to °/s)

1 megahertz equals 360,000,000 degrees per second exactly.

How to convert megahertz to degrees per second

To convert megahertz to degrees per second, multiply the number of megahertz by 360,000,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply degrees per second by 2.777777778×10⁻⁹ (rounded).

degrees per second = megahertz × 360,000,000

Example: 10 megahertz = 3,600,000,000 degrees per second.

About these units

Megahertz (MHz)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One million hertz. FM radio and older processors.

Engineers once said megacycles, and the older unit shows up in postwar papers, one 1946 study on ultrasound in liquids being titled with 15 megacycles. When hertz replaced cycles per second, the megacycle per second, Mc/s, became the megahertz. The word then entered home computing: Wikipedia notes personal computer clock speeds of around 1 MHz in the late 1970s on machines from Atari, Commodore and Apple.

A megahertz is one million hertz, the natural scale of broadcast radio. FM stations in most of the world use 87.5 to 108 MHz, with the Americas using 88 to 108 MHz and Japan using 76 to 95 MHz. In North America channels are spaced 200 kHz apart, and the FCC reassigned FM to its present band in 1945. As a way to rate computers, clock speed is criticised by many experts, who call it an easily manipulable benchmark because some chips need several cycles per operation and others perform several operations in one.

1 megahertz = 1,000,000 hertz (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Megahertz; Wikipedia: FM broadcast band

Degree Per Second (°/s)

ScientificCurrent unit

One 360th of a hertz: one full turn in 360 seconds. A measure of rotation rate.

Motion sensors and camera gear tend to report turning speed in degrees per second, a unit that people can picture more readily than radians. Three-axis gyroscopes in phones, tablets and game controllers measure the rate of rotation in roll, pitch and yaw, and the rate is commonly given in these degrees. A full turn is 360 degrees, so a device spinning once each second registers 360 degrees per second.

Converting to frequency is a division by 360. One degree per second is 1/360 hertz, about 0.002778 Hz, the figure used here. In terms of angular velocity it equals pi divided by 180 rad/s, about 0.01745, and 6 degrees per second equals one revolution per minute. Degrees per second are not an SI unit, though the degree itself is accepted for use alongside the SI.

1 degree per second = 0.002777777778 hertz (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gyroscope; Wikipedia: Angular velocity; Wikipedia: Revolutions per minute

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