Orders of magnitude (angular velocity)

This page is a progressive and labeled list of the SI angular velocity orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

List of orders of magnitude for angular velocity

Factor (rad·s−1)	Value (rad·s−1)	Value (prefixHz)	Value (rpm)	Item
10−16	7.96×10−16–8.85×10−16	127 aHz	7.61×10−15–8.45×10−15	Galactic period of the Sun
10−12	7.73×10−12	1.23 pHz	2.05×10−14	Rate of Earth's axial precession and corresponding precession of the equinoxes.
10−11	1.65×10−11	2.63 pHz	1.58×10−10	Sedna's average sidereal orbit rate
10−10	8.03×10−10	127 pHz	7.66×10−9	Sidereal orbit rate of Pluto
10−9	1.21×10−9	192 pHz	1.15×10−8	Sidereal orbit rate of Neptune
10−8	1.68×10−8	2.2 nHz	1.6×10−7	Sidereal orbit rate of Jupiter
10−7	1.06×10−7	16 nHz	1×10−6	Sidereal orbit rate of Mars
	1.99×10−7	31.7 nHz	1.90×10−6	Sidereal orbit rate of the Earth around the Sun
10−6	2.66×10−6	424 nHz	2.54×10−5	Moon's sidereal orbit rate around the Earth
10−5	7.27×10−5	11.6 µHz	6.94×10−4	Earth's sidereal rotation rate
10−4	1.45×10−4	23.1 µHz	1.39×10−3	Hour hand on an analog clock
	1.75×10−4	28 µHz	1.68×10−3	Jupiter's sidereal rotation rate
10−3	1.75×10−3	278 µHz	0.0167	Minute hand on an analog clock
	3.5×10−3	560 µHz	0.033	The London Eye giant Ferris wheel
10−2
10−1	1.05×10−1	16.7 mHz	1	Second hand on an analog clock
100	3.49×100	556 mHz	33⅓	LP record
	6×100–1.3×101	1–2 Hz	60–120	Low-speed diesel engines (used in ships)
101	1×101–3×101	2–5 Hz	100–300	Early diesel engines
	2×101–5×101	3–8 Hz	200–500	Audio compact disc
	4.7×101	7.5 Hz	450	Rotor blades of a helicopter in flight
	9.4×101	15 Hz	900	Spin cycle of a typical washing machine
102	1.0×102	16 Hz	960	The wheels of a typical automobile driving at
	1.0×102–1.2×102	17–18 Hz	1000–1100	Barrel assembly of M61 Vulcan cannon
	1.3×102	20 Hz	1200	High-speed diesel engines (lorries, yachts, generators, etc.)
	2×102	30 Hz	2000	Engine speed of typical automobile traveling at
	3.14×102	50 Hz	3000	Turbo generator in an electrical power plant for a 50 Hz grid
	5.8×102–7.3×102	92–120 Hz	5500–7000	Redline of typical automobile engine
	7.54×102	120 Hz	7200	Consumer hard disk
103	1.01×103	161 Hz	9650	Pulsar PSR B1257+12
	1.08×103	173 Hz	10,400	CD in 52× CD-ROM drive
	1.6×103	270 Hz	16,200	Flagellar motor top speed under light load
	2×103	300 Hz	18,000	Redline of a V8 Formula 1 race car (pre-2014)
	4.50×103	716 Hz	43,000	Pulsar PSR J1748-2446ad (fastest known)
	9.42×103	1500 Hz	90 000	Zippe centrifuge
104	1.4×104	2.2 kHz	130,000	Analytical ultracentrifuge
	1.6×104	2.5 kHz	150,000	Turbocharger
	8×104	10 kHz	800,000	Ultrasonic dental drill
105	order of 2×105	order of 30 kHz	order of 2,000,000	Microfabricated gas turbine
107	6.28 x 107	10 MHz	600,000,000	Man-made rotational speed record: a calcium carbonate sphere, only four millionths of a metre in diameter, levitated using a laser in a vacuum chamber and spun up to speed using circularly polarized light.
1044	1.16545×1044	1.85×1043Hz	1.1×1045	Planck angular frequency

See also

• Radians per second
• Hertz
• Revolutions per minute