Converting between revolutions per minute (RPM) and revolutions per second (RPS) is not straightforward for me in Mathematica.
I know that $1\; \text{RPM} = \frac{2\; \times\; \Pi\; \text{Radian}}{\text{Second}\; \times\; 60}$. To get RPS then, it is just a matter to remove the factor of $60$ in the denominator.
Taking a numerical example, I can convert say $500$ RPM to Hertz as follows:
$[\text{Convert}[\frac{500\; \times\; 2\; \times\; \Pi\; \text{Radian}}{\text{Second}\; \times\; 60}, \text{Hertz}],9]$
which gives me $52.3597776\; \text{Hertz}$
But now if I want to convert $500$ RPM to RPS, the following does not work as in the Convert
command, the second argument has also numerical values in it:
$[\text{Convert}[\frac{500\; \times\; 2\; \times\; \Pi\; \text{Radian}}{\text{Second}\; \times\; 60}, \frac{2\; \times\; \Pi\; \text{Radian}}{\text{Second}}],9]$
which gives me as output: $\frac{52.3598776\; \text{Radian}}{\text{Second}}$ instead of the desired answer of about $8.33\:$ . The factor of $2\; \Pi$ is the troublemaker.
So how to do an appropriate conversion from RPM to RPS?
update:
I am using version 9.
UnitConvert[]
function. I'm using ver. 7.0 so I can't check if it works in Your case. $\endgroup$N@UnitConvert[Quantity[500,"Revolutions"/"Minutes"], "Revolutions"/"Seconds"]
does give the result 8.333... $\endgroup$UnitConvert[Quantity[500., "RPM"], "RPS"]
$\endgroup$