Miles Per Hour to Meters Per Minute (mph to m/min)

1 mile per hour equals 26.8224 meters per minute exactly.

1 mile per hour = 26.8224 meters per minute

How to convert miles per hour to meters per minute

To convert miles per hour to meters per minute, multiply the number of miles per hour by 26.8224. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply meters per minute by 0.03728227153 (rounded).

meters per minute = miles per hour × 26.8224

Example: 10 miles per hour = 268.224 meters per minute.

About these units

Mile Per Hour (mph)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

Exactly 0.44704 m/s. The unit for road speeds in the US, UK and a few other countries.

Early British motoring law is the best window into this unit. The 1861 Locomotive Act set a limit of 10 mph for light locomotives. The 1865 Red Flag Act cut it to 4 mph in the country and 2 mph in towns, with a person walking ahead with a flag. The Locomotives on Highways Act of 1896 raised it to 14 mph, and the Motor Car Act of 1903 to 20 mph. In 1931 all limits for cars were abolished, and 30 mph in built-up areas returned in 1935.

The mile per hour combines the mile, set at 5,280 feet in Elizabeth I's reign, with the hour, and it equals exactly 0.44704 m/s or 1.609344 km/h. The United Kingdom and United States use it on roads, along with several smaller countries, mostly territories or former territories of those two, and the US, Canada and Ireland use it for rail. Sports such as cricket, tennis and baseball quote ball speeds in it. Aviation and shipping prefer knots, about 0.869 of one mph each.

1 mile per hour = 0.44704 meters per second (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Miles per hour; Wikipedia: Speed limits in the United Kingdom; Wikipedia: Mile

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

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