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About these units
Yard/Hour (yd/h)
A yard per hour is extremely slow and used only in rare cases where long-term monitoring of tiny movements is necessary—such as soil settlement in construction sites, creeping machinery, or long-term structural drift. Because the yard is an everyday imperial unit, yd/h sometimes appears in engineering logs or legacy datasets, though it is largely replaced by ft/h or mm/h in modern practice. Its use reflects the persistence of imperial measurements in certain specialized contexts.
Cosmic Velocity - Second (v₂)
The second cosmic velocity is the escape velocity, the speed required to completely overcome a planet's gravitational attraction without further propulsion. For Earth, this speed is about 11.2 km/s. It is higher than v₁ because escaping gravity requires exceeding orbital balance entirely, not merely achieving stable free fall. Escape velocity underlies missions to the Moon, other planets, and deep space probes. Reaching v₂ allows spacecraft to travel along trajectories that leave Earth's gravitational well permanently unless acted on by external forces. This value symbolizes humanity's ability to break free from its home world—a critical milestone in exploration.