The shop counts turns; physics counts radians
Every nameplate, tachometer and datasheet in a plant is written in rpm — revolutions per minute, the symbol . Every equation in your course is written in . The two never share a value, and the bridge between them is worth memorising in one piece: . Revolutions become radians (); minutes become seconds (). As one number that is a division by 9.549 — but keep it as and you will never forget which way it goes.
The period is the other way in: the time in seconds for exactly one revolution. One revolution is radians, so — omega equals two pi over T. That is with the angle already filled in for you. And a nameplate speed converts straight to a period: at rpm one revolution takes seconds.
Put a radius on it and you get the rim speed the same way: — one circumference of metres, covered every seconds, where is the radius in metres and is in . If a rotational answer ever looks wrong by roughly six, you have found this bridge unpaid.