5 knots in feet per second
Result
The conversion result is: 5 knots is equivalent to 8.43904928550598 feet per second.[1]
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot per second is equal to 0.118496760259179 times 5 knots.
It can also be expressed as: 5 knots is equal to 1 / 0.118496760259179 feet per second.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: five knots is about eight point four three feet per second, or alternatively, a foot per second is about zero point one two times five knots.
Footnotes
[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).
Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.