Speed units are a very important parameter used to detect moving objects. The duration of movement in a unit of time is called speed. Speed units are defined depending on scale, type and other parameters.
Following are some of the common units of speed.
Meters per second (m/s):
The SI unit of speed, representing the distance traveled in meters in one second.
Kilometers per hour (km/h):
Commonly used for vehicle speed, it represents the distance covered in kilometers in one hour.
Miles per hour (mph):
Unit of speed used in the United States and some other countries that indicates the number of miles traveled in one hour.
Feet per second (ft/s):
The distance traveled in feet in one second is often used in physics and engineering.
At the:
Nautical miles per hour, commonly used in maritime and air traffic.
To do:
A dimensionless unit that represents a multiple of the speed of sound in a given medium.
Centimeters per second (cm/s):
The distance covered in one second in centimeters.
Inches per second (in/s):
The distance traveled in one second in inches.
Yards per second (yards/s):
The distance covered in yards in one second.
Speed of light (c):
The speed at which light travels in a vacuum is approximately 299,792 kilometers per second.
Parsec per year (pc/year):
A unit used in astronomy to measure the speed of astronomical objects.
Astronomical units per year (AU/year):
The average distance from Earth to the Sun traveled in one year.
Gigameters per second (Gm/s):
The distance covered in one second in billions of meters.
Terameter per hour (Tm/h):
The distance traveled in one hour in trillions of meters.
Hectometers per minute (hm/min):
The distance covered in one minute is hundreds of meters.
Megaparsec per millennium (Mpc/Myr):
Used in cosmology, representing vast cosmic distances covered in millions of years.
Micrometers per microsecond (μm/μs):
Very small distances are covered in a millionth of a second.
Nanometers per nanosecond (nm/ns):
Extremely small distances are covered in a billionth of a second.
Kilofts per fortnight (kft/fortnight):
A fun session that combines distance and time in an unconventional way.
Millimeters per minute (mm/min):
The distance covered in one minute in millimeters.
Decimeters per day (dm/day):
The distance covered in one day in tenths of a meter.
Petameter per picosecond (Pm/ps):
Extremely large distances are covered in a trillionth of a second.
Light years per century (years/century):
The distance light travels in a vacuum in one hundred years.
Femtometer per femtosecond (fm/fs):
Incredibly small distances covered in a quadrillionth of a second.
Teranautical miles per earth hour (Tnmi/th):
An imaginative unit that combines nautical miles and hours in an exaggerated way.
