Units of Velocity

Units of velocity is very important parameter used to recognize the moving objects. It is the travel length at a unit time is call the velocity. Depending on the scale, nature and as per other parameters, units of velocity are defined.

Some of the common types of units of velocity are as follows.

Meters per second (m/s):

The SI unit for velocity, representing the distance traveled in meters in one second.

Kilometers per hour (km/h):

Commonly used for vehicle speed, representing the distance traveled in kilometers in one hour.

Miles per hour (mph):

A unit used in the United States and some other countries for expressing speed, indicating the number of miles traveled in one hour.

Feet per second (ft/s):

The distance traveled in feet in one second, often used in physics and engineering.

Knots:

Nautical miles per hour, commonly used in maritime and aviation contexts.

Mach:

A dimensionless unit representing multiples of the speed of sound in a particular medium.

Centimeters per second (cm/s):

The distance traveled in centimeters in one second.

Inches per second (in/s):

The distance traveled in inches in one second.

Yards per second (yd/s):

The distance traveled in yards in one second.

Light speed (c):

The speed at which light travels in a vacuum, approximately 299,792 kilometers per second.

Parsecs per year (pc/yr):

A unit used in astronomy to measure the velocity of astronomical objects.

Astronomical units per year (AU/yr):

The average distance from the Earth to the Sun covered in one year.

Gigameters per second (Gm/s):

The distance traveled in billions of meters in one second.

Terameters per hour (Tm/h):

The distance traveled in trillions of meters in one hour.

Hectometers per minute (hm/min):

The distance traveled in hundreds of meters in one minute.

Megaparsecs per millennium (Mpc/Myr):

Used in cosmology, representing vast cosmic distances covered in millions of years.

Micrometers per microsecond (μm/μs):

Very small distances covered in one millionth of a second.

Nanometers per nanosecond (nm/ns):

Extremely small distances covered in one billionth of a second.

Kilofeet per fortnight (kft/fortnight):

An amusing unit combining distance and time in an unconventional way.

Millimeters per minute (mm/min):

The distance traveled in millimeters in one minute.

Decimeters per day (dm/day):

The distance traveled in tenths of a meter in one day.

Petameters per picosecond (Pm/ps):

Extremely large distances covered in one trillionth of a second.

Light-years per century (ly/century):

The distance light travels in a vacuum in one hundred years.

Femtometers per femtosecond (fm/fs):

Incredibly small distances covered in one quadrillionth of a second.

Teranautical miles per terrahour (Tnmi/th):

An imaginative unit combining nautical miles and hours in an exaggerated manner.