Feet per Second to Meter per Second Converter
Speed · unit-converter
Convert Feet per Second to Meter per Second with a fixed input and output unit, step-by-step formula line, and reference tables. All calculations bridge through meters per second with fixed definitions (knot, international mile, Mach 1 = ISA sea level, Beaufort WMO bands at 10 m, vacuum c, plus linear SI and imperial rate units like km/s, fpm, ips, cm/s, and mm/s).
About Feet per Second
Feet per second appears in ballistics, engineering, and some US sports contexts; it relates to imperial length per second.
About Meter per Second
Meters per second is the SI derived unit for speed. It is the standard in physics and engineering for expressing velocity.
How to convert feet per second to meters per second
1 feet per second equals 0.3048 meter per second in this tool (via m/s):
1 fps = (0.3048 m/s ÷ 1 m/s) mps = 0.3048 mps
Each feet per second carries 0.3048 m/s and each meter per second 1 m/s, so one fps equals 0.3048 ÷ 1 mps.
Let v(fps) be the numeric speed in Feet per Second (fps), and v(mps) in Meter per Second (mps). Then:
v(mps) = v(fps) × (0.3048 / 1)
Equivalently, divide by how many fps fit into one mps (m/s per mps divided by m/s per fps):
v(mps) = v(fps) ÷ 3.280839895013123
Examples
Example #1: Convert 10 fps to meter per second
10 fps = 10 fps × (0.3048/1) mps = 3.048 mps
10 fps = 10 fps ÷ 3.280839895013123 = 3.048 mps
Example #2: Convert 50 fps to meter per second
50 fps = 50 fps × (0.3048/1) mps = 15.24 mps
50 fps = 50 fps ÷ 3.280839895013123 = 15.24 mps
Summary
To convert Feet per Second to Meter per Second, multiply the value in fps by (0.3048 m/s per fps) / (1 m/s per mps). Equivalently: value_mps = value_fps × (0.3048 / 1). Numerically, 1 fps equals 0.3048 mps.
Relationship context
Both Feet per Second and Meter per Second are expressed as fixed multiples of meters per second in this tool. Converting multiplies by the ratio of m/s per fps to m/s per mps, so results stay consistent with SI-based definitions (international mile, knot, feet, etc.).
Conversion tables
| Feet per Second (fps) | Meter per Second (mps) |
|---|---|
| 0.1 | 0.03048 |
| 1 | 0.3048 |
| 2 | 0.6096 |
| 3 | 0.9144 |
| 4 | 1.2192 |
| 5 | 1.524 |
| 6 | 1.8288 |
| 7 | 2.1336 |
| 8 | 2.4384 |
| 9 | 2.7432 |
| Feet per Second (fps) | Meter per Second (mps) |
|---|---|
| 10 | 3.048 |
| 20 | 6.096 |
| 30 | 9.144 |
| 40 | 12.192 |
| 50 | 15.24 |
| 60 | 18.288 |
| 70 | 21.336 |
| 80 | 24.384 |
| 90 | 27.432 |
| 100 | 30.48 |