CONVERSION FACTORS

Quantity
Length inch (in)

(Approxim

Imperial Unit

foot (ft) yard (yd) furlong (fur) mile international nautical mile (for navigation) Mass ounce (oz) pound (lb) stone ton square inch (in) square foot (ft) square yard (yd) perch (p) rood (rd) acre (ac) square mile Volume cubic inch (in) cubic foot (ft) cubic yard (yd) bushel (bus) fluid ounce (fl oz) pint (pt) gallon (gal) acre foot pound - force (lbf) ton - force (tonf) pound per square

millimetre (mm) or centimetre (cm) centimetre or metre (m) metre (m) metre (m) or kilometre (km) kilometre (km)

Metric Unit

gram (g) gram (g) or kilogram (kg) kilogram (kg) tonne (t) square centimetre (cm) square centimetre (cm) or square metre (m) square metre (m) square metre (m) hectare (ha) hectare (ha) square kilometre (km) cubic cubic cubic cubic centimetre (cm) metre (m) metre (m) metre (m)

Area

Volume (fluids)

millilitre millilitre (ml) or litre (l) litre (l) or cubic (m) cubic metre (m) or megalitre (ML) newton (N) kilonewton (kN) kilopascal (kPa) kilopascal (kPa) or megapascal (MPa) megapascal (MPa)

Force

Pressure inch(psi) atmosphere (atm) ton per square inch (ton/in)

inch of mercury (in Hg) (for meteorology) mile per hour (mph) knot (kn) (for navigation) Temperat degree Fahrenheit ure Density (F) (lb/in) Velocity milibar (mb)

kilometre per hour (km/h)

degree Celsius (C) (g/cm) = tonne per cubic metre (t/m)

pound per cubic inch gram per cubic centimetre

ton per cubic yard British thermal unit Energy (btu) therm

tonne per cubic metre (t/m) kilojoule (kJ) megajoule (MJ)

(for electrical energy) kilowatt hour (kWh) Power Time horsepower (hp) kilowatt (kW) second (s) minute (min) hour (h) (c/s) revolution per minute (rpm) radian per second (rad/s) hertz (Hz)

Frequenc cycle per second y Angular Velocity

TORS

(Approximate)
1 in = 25.4 mm 1 ft = 30.5 cm 1yd = 0.194 m 1 fur = 201 m 1 mile = 1.61 km 1 n mile = 1852 m 1 1 1 1 oz = 28.3 g lb = 454 g stone = 6.35 kg ton = 1.02 t

Imperial to Metric Units

1 cm = 0.394 in 1 m = 3.28 ft 1 m = 1.09 yd 1 km = 4.97 fur 1 km = 0.621 mile 1m = 3.28 ft 1 1 1 1 g = 0.0353 oz kg = 2.20 lb kg = 0.157 stone t = 0.984 ton

Metric to Imperial Units

1 in = 6.45 cm 1 ft = 929 cm 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 yd = 0.836 m p = 25.3 m rd = 0.101 ha ac = 0.405 ha square mile=2.59 km in = 16.4 cm ft = 0.0283 m yd = 0.765 m bus = 0040.0364 m fl oz = 28.4 ml pt = 568 ml gal = 4.55 litre acre foot = 1230 m 1.23 ML

1 cm = 0.155 in 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m = 10.8 ft m = 1.20 yd m = 0.0395 p ha = 9.88 rd ha = 2.47 ac km=0.386 sq.mile cm = 0.0610 in m = 35.3 ft m = 1.31 yd m = 27.5 bus

1 ml = 0.0352 fl oz 1 litre = 1.76 pt 1 m = 220 gal 1 ML= 0.811 acre foot 1 N = 0.225 lbf 1 kN = 0.100 tonf 1 kPa = 0.145 psi 1 MPa = 9.87 atm

1 lbf = 4.45 N tonf = 9.96 kN 1 psi = 6.89 kPa 1 atm = 101 kPa

1 ton/in = 15.4 MPa

1 MPa = 0.647 ton/in

1 in Hg = 33.9 mb 1 mb = 100 Pa 1 mph = 1.61 km/h = 1 kn = 1.85 km/h

1 mb = 0.0295 in Hg 1 km/h = 0.621 mph

C = 5/9 (F - 32) 1 lb/in = 27.7 g/cm 1lb/in = 27.7 t/m 1 ton/yd = 1.33 t/m 1 Btu = 1.06 kJ 1 therm = 106 MJ =kWh = 3.60 MJ 1 hp = 0.746 kW 1 min = 60s 1 h = 3600s 1 c/s = 1.Hz 1 rpm = 0.105 rad/s revolution per minute (rpm)

F = 9/5 (C + 32) 1 g/cm=0.0361 ib/in 1 t/m = 0.0361ib/in 1 t/m= 0.752 ton/yd 1 kJ = 0.948 Btu 1 MJ= 9.48x 10 therm

1 kW = 1.34 hp

1 Hz = 1.c/s

1 rad/s = 9.55 rpm.