The math help thread

Complicated or just long?

Is there any way to get 50 mi/h into ft / s^2? "A car is traveling 50 mi/h, decelerating at 22 ft / s ^2, blah blah..." I figure I need to make them the same units but the s^2 is kind of throwing me off. Wouldn't 4400 ft/s work? ):

@ Russt: Yeah, my professor made us learn it like that and use it like that on our first test. Excruciatingly painful given the alternate route...

Units, son! Use the power of labeling numbers with units!

Code:

[U]50 mi[/U] * [U]5280 ft[/U] * [U]  hr   [/U]
hr        mi     3600 s

Now you have the velocity on the same units as the acceleration.

Oh and no you can't change ft/s into ft/s^2. The acceleration value describes how much the velocity changes per second or w/e the denominator unit is.