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> Orders of magnitude (speed)
Orders of magnitude
for
speed
:
average rate of the
Moon
receding from the
Earth
1.3 nm/s
growth of
hair
3 nm/s.
walking
1-1.5 m/s
car 30 m/s (typical speed)
train
40 m/s,
high-speed train
90 m/s
speed of sound
330 m/s
low Earth orbit
7.5 km/s
Earth in orbit around the
Sun
30 km/s
speed of light
300,000 km/s
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