With modern technology, speed on the water can be measured and reported in any units imaginable. Knots are the standard unit of measure for historical purposes, because sailors counted knots on a rope as the ship advanced to estimate speed on the water.
What knots were was a crude speed measurement developed hundreds of years ago. You would literally tie evenly spaced knots into a rope, then put a board with a hole just a little too small for the knots to fit through on the rope and drag it in the water. After one hour you would pull the rope out, and however many knots the board had slid down was your speed, for example 5 knots would mean the board slid down 5 rope knots in one hour.
One knot is one nautical mile per hour, a length calculated from sea-level circumference hence linked directly to angles of latitude and longitude. There have been various ways to measure it.
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The oldest method used "logs" - small pieces of wood were dropped overboard from the bow of a ship, and the latter's speed then calculated from the time taken for the stern to pass the log. Later developments in navigation meant a mean speed could be derived from position and time measurements.
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More recently, various types of knot-meter were introduced based on a small propeller-like rotor turned by the water passing over its blades as the unit holding it was towed by the vessel. In theory one could use propeller speed (rpm) and pitch to derive speed through the water, but this is inherently inaccurate due to potentially somewhat unquantifiable propeller-slip. Nowadays it is normally calculated by GPS.
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The knot is also used in aviation, and on fast aeroplanes at least, the speed is measured from the effect of the slipstream past a "Pitot Tube": the air flow induces in a small metal tube a partial vacuum proportional to the speed. Like the logs and rotary speed-indicators on ships, this only gives speed through the medium. Speed "over ground" has to be calculated by allowing for tidal currents or wind velocities. Again, now, GPS systems give direct over-ground velocities (a 'velocity' is speed and direction).
The unit 'knots' originated at sea when ancient sailors used a chip board to measure the speed of their vessel. Knots means nautical miles per hour.
Nautical
The nautical term for a unit of speed when sailing or navigating a boat is the word knots. To measure a knot it is the unit of speed equal to one nautical mile approximately 1.151 mph.
The speed of 150 knots is equal to 172.6 mph (the conversion is 1.15077945 miles/nautical mile).
Yes. One knot equals one nautical mile per hour. However this may be air speed or speed through the water as opposed to speed over the ground.
The answer is 0. A knot is a measurement of speed, not distance. 1 mile per hour = 0.8689762 knots per hour = 1.609344 kilometers per hour. Tyro
The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.151 mph. Therefore, 18 knots = 18 x 1.151 = 20.718 mph18 knots = 20.7 mph
Yes. In both realms, 1 knot means 1 nautical mile per hour.
No way to tell. Knots is a measurement of speed, nautical miles is distance. 16 knots is 16 nautical miles/hour, so it'd depend on how long the craft would keep going.
Knots in nautical terms means a measure of speed, not distance.
Knots are units of speed 1 Knot = 115 % of 1 MPH or 1 Nautical Mile = 1.15 Statute Miles Happy sailing!
I'm pretty sure knots use to be the measurement of wind speed. I'm not totally sure. Sorry.
Nautical Miles Per Hour (knots)
The nautical term for a unit of speed when sailing or navigating a boat is the word knots. To measure a knot it is the unit of speed equal to one nautical mile approximately 1.151 mph.
A knot is a unit of speed used in the maritime world. A speed of 1 knot equals the travelling of 1 nautical mile an hour. 8 knots means travelling 8 nautical miles an hour. A nautical mile equals 1.852 meters.
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The distance measured in sea that is called nautical mile & the speed is measured in knots 1 nautical mile =1852 metre
Err... 10 knots is a measurement of speed, not power, so your question has no answer.
* Use the formula: distance = speed x time. In this case, if you divide the distance by the speed, you get time.* "Knots" means "nautical miles per hour".