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Orders of magnitude (angular velocity)
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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various angular velocity levels between 1×10−16 rad·s−1 and 1×107 rad·s−1.
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| Factor (rad·s−1) | Value (rad·s−1) | Value (rpm) | Item |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10−16 | 8.85×10−16 to 7.96×10−16[1] | 8.45×10−15 to 7.60×10−15 | Galactic period of the Sun |
| 10−7 | 1.991×10−7 | 1.901×10−6 | Orbit of the Earth around the Sun |
| 10−6 | |||
| 10−5 | 7.27×10−5 | 6.94×10−4 | Sidereal of the Earth |
| 10−4 | 1.75×10−4 | 1.68×10−3 | Sidereal of Jupiter |
| 10−3 | 3.5×10−3 | 0.03333 | The London Eye |
| 1.75×10−3 | 0.01667 | Minute hand on an analogue watch | |
| 10−2 | |||
| 10−1 | 0.1 | 1 | Second hand on an analogue watch. |
| 1 | 3.49 | 33⅓ | LP record |
| 6.3 to 12.6 | 60 to 120 | Low-speed diesel engines (used in ships) | |
| 10 | 10 to 31 | 100 to 300 | Early diesel engines |
| 47.1 | 450 | Rotor blades of a helicopter in flight | |
| 94 | 900 | Spin cycle of a typical washing machine | |
| 102 | 105 | 1000 | M61 Vulcan cannon |
| 126 | 1200 | High-speed diesel engines (lorries, yachts, generators, etc) | |
| 419 | 4000 | Jeep Tornado engine; an overhead camshaft engine. | |
| 723 | 6900 | 1x DVD | |
| 754 | 7200 | Hard disk | |
| 942 | 9000 | Lamborghini V12 engine. | |
| 103 | 1.01×103 | 9647 | Pulsar PSR B1257+12 |
| 1.08×102 | 10 348 | CD in 52X CD-ROM drive[2] | |
| 2.88×103 | 27 500 | What some people incorrectly think 52x CD-ROM drive spins a disk at[3][4] | |
| 4.5×103 | 42 980 | Pulsar PSR J1748-2446ad (fastest known)[5] | |
| 104 | 1.36×104 | 130 000 | Analytical ultracentrifuge[6] |
| 1.5×104 | 150,000 | Turbocharger[7] | |
| 8.4×104 | 800,000 | Ultrasonic dentist's drill | |
| 105 | 2.1×105 | 2 000 000 | Microfabricated gas turbine[8] |
| 106 | 2.1×106 | 20 000 000 | Human induced rotational speed record: steel ball 0.8 mm diameter suspended in vacuum, (Jesse Beams, 1946 [9]) |
| 107 | |||
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