Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Belmont Elementry School

From: dl_irwin@telus.net
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 11:23:15 PDT


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

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

Email Address:   dl_irwin@telus.net
Experimenter:    Morgan

Latitude         49? 04' north
Longitude:       122? 39' westest
Distance to Equator: 5461.590 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 51?
Calculated Earth circumference:   38552.399

Comments:
Our other numbers of measured shadow angles in degrees are 55?
       54? 
       55?
       61?
       51?(we used 51? in our expirement)


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