278 kilometers per hour in meters per second

Conversion

278 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 77.2222222222222 meters per second.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter per second is equal to 0.0129496402877698 times 278 kilometers per hour.

It can also be expressed as: 278 kilometers per hour is equal to $\frac{1}{0.0129496402877698}$ meters per second.

Approximation

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

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

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

Meters Per Second

"Meter per second is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity which specifies both magnitude and a specific direction), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds.The SI unit symbols are m·s−1, m s−1, m/s, or m/s, sometimes (unofficially) abbreviated as mps. Where metres per second are several orders of magnitude too slow to be convenient, such as in astronomical measurements, velocities may be given in kilometres per second, where 1 km/s is 1000 metres per second, sometimes unofficially abbreviated as kps."

Wikipedia page of meters per second

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.