Meters Per Minute to Meters Per Second (m/min to m/s)

1 meter per minute equals 0.01666666667 meters per second (rounded).

1 meter per minute = 0.01666666667 meters per second

How to convert meters per minute to meters per second

To convert meters per minute to meters per second, multiply the number of meters per minute by 0.01666666667. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply meters per second by 60.

meters per second = meters per minute × 0.01666666667

Example: 10 meters per minute = 0.1666666667 meters per second.

About these units

Meter Per Minute (m/min)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One meter per minute (0.0167 m/s). Used for cutting speeds in machining.

Machine shops quote meter per minute for cutting speed, the relative speed between a tool and the workpiece surface. The Wikipedia article on speeds and feeds gives illustrative values for a plain high-speed steel cutter: roughly 90 to 210 m/min for brass, 122 to 305 m/min for aluminum, and as little as 1 to 2 m/min for medium cast iron, with the figures shifting with coolant and tool material.

The upper aluminum figure of 305 m/min corresponds to about 5.1 m/s, since 305 divided by 60 is 5.08. A speed of one meter per minute is only 0.0167 m/s, or 60 m/h, which shows how slowly hard metals are cut. The unit pairs with surface feet per minute, the other common cutting speed unit, where 1 ft/min is 0.3048 m/min.

1 meter per minute = 0.01666666667 meters per second (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Speeds and feeds; Wikipedia: Metre per second

Meter Per Second (m/s)

Metric (SI)Current unit

The SI unit of speed. Walking pace is about 1.4 m/s; a sprinter reaches roughly 10 m/s.

Official standing arrived in 1960, when the CGPM established the SI and made the meter per second the unit for speed and velocity. Before that, feet per second, miles per hour and knots were more common, depending on region and trade. One proposal gave 1 m/s its own name, the benz, after Karl Benz, but it was rejected and never caught on, so the unit is still written as a plain ratio of meter to second.

The meter is now defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second, and the second by the vibration of caesium atoms, so the meter per second rests on two physical standards. Exactly 3.6 km/h make 1 m/s, and it equals about 2.2369 mph or 1.9438 knots. For scale, sound travels at about 343 m/s in dry air at 20 °C, and Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 reached about 361 m/s, Mach 1.06, in October 1947. Physics and engineering use the unit almost exclusively.

The meter per second is the reference unit for speed on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Metre per second; NIST: the meter and the SI redefinition; Wikipedia: Sound barrier

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