172 feet per second in kilometers per hour

Conversion

172 feet per second is equivalent to 188.73216 kilometers per hour.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer per hour is equal to 0.00529851404233386 times 172 feet per second.

It can also be expressed as: 172 feet per second is equal to $\frac{1}{0.00529851404233386}$ kilometers per hour.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one hundred and seventy-two feet per second is about one hundred and eighty-eight point seven two kilometers per hour, or alternatively, a kilometer per hour is about zero point zero one times one hundred and seventy-two feet per second.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Feet Per Second

'The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s, or sec). The corresponding unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the metre per second.Abbreviations include ft/s, ft/sec and fps, and the rarely used scientific notation ft s−1.'

Wikipedia page of feet per second

Kilometers Per Hour

"The 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."

Wikipedia page of kilometers per hour

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.