479 miles per hour in feet per second

Conversion

479 miles per hour is equivalent to 702.533333333333 feet per second.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 foot per second is equal to 0.00142342000379579 times 479 miles per hour.

It can also be expressed as: 479 miles per hour is equal to $\frac{1}{0.00142342000379579}$ feet per second.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: four hundred and seventy-nine miles per hour is about seven hundred and two point five two feet per second, or alternatively, a foot per second is about zero times four hundred and seventy-nine miles per hour.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Miles Per Hour

"Miles per hour (abbreviated mph, MPH or mi/h) is an imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of statute miles covered in one hour. Although kilometres per hour is now the most widely used measure of speed, miles per hour remains the standard unit for speed limits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda and Puerto Rico, although the latter two use kilometres for long distances."

Wikipedia page of miles per hour

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.'

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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.