Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Belmont Elementary

From: cknight@sd35.bc.ca
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 11:22:10 PDT


Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     Belmont Elementary
School Location: Langley, B.C., Canada

Email Address:   cknight@sd35.bc.ca
Experimenter:    Carlin Browne

Latitude         49°04 (North)
Longitude:       122°39(West)
Distance to Equator: 5461.590 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 52
Calculated Earth circumference:   37811.007 km

Comments:
I liked  doing the experiment and calculating the results of  it was really fun to do and put together!


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