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When finding Angular Acceleration, how is it that -7.129 x 10-4 rev/s2 equal to -4.47800 x 10-3 rad/sec2? In other words, how does the unit conversion work?
 
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There are 2*pi rad per rev because a revolution is once around a circle.
 

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