Convert foot per minute to meter per second
1 ft/min = 0.00508 m/s
1 ft/min = 0.00508 m/s
1 ft/min in every speed unit
| millimeter per year | 160,310,000 mm/yr |
| millimeter per day | 438,910 mm/day |
| millimeter per hour | 18,288 mm/h |
| inch per day | 17,280 in/day |
| foot per day | 1,440 ft/d |
| inch per hour | 720 in/h |
| meter per day | 438.91 m/d |
| millimeter per minute | 304.8 mm/min |
| meter per hour | 18.288 m/h |
| inch per minute | 12 in/min |
| millimeter per second | 5.08 mm/s |
| foot per minute | 1 ft/min |
| centimeter per second | 0.508 cm/s |
| meter per minute | 0.3048 m/min |
| inch per second | 0.2 in/s |
| kilometer per hour | 0.018288 km/h |
| foot per second | 0.016667 ft/s |
| mile per hour | 0.011364 mph |
| knot | 0.0098747 kn |
| meter per second | 0.00508 m/s |
| mach (sea level) | 0.000014928 Ma |
| kilometer per second | 0.00000508 km/s |
| speed of light | 1.6945e-11 c |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.00508 to go from foot per minute to meter per second, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (m/s) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? meter per second to foot per minute — 1 m/s = 196.8503937 ft/min.
foot per minute to meter per second — common values
| 1 ft/min | 0.00508 m/s |
| 2 ft/min | 0.01016 m/s |
| 3 ft/min | 0.01524 m/s |
| 5 ft/min | 0.0254 m/s |
| 10 ft/min | 0.0508 m/s |
| 15 ft/min | 0.0762 m/s |
| 20 ft/min | 0.1016 m/s |
| 25 ft/min | 0.127 m/s |
| 50 ft/min | 0.254 m/s |
| 75 ft/min | 0.381 m/s |
| 100 ft/min | 0.508 m/s |
| 250 ft/min | 1.27 m/s |
| 500 ft/min | 2.54 m/s |
| 1000 ft/min | 5.08 m/s |
Other speed conversions
km/h → m/sft/s → m/smph → m/skn → m/sft/min → km/hft/min → ft/sft/min → mphft/min → kn