Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Alex Hope Elementary

From: lemony101@shaw.ca
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 13:54:30 PST


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

School Name:     Alex  Hope Elementary
School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Email Address:   lemony101@shaw.ca
Experimenter:    Emily Senff, Sheena Walper, Dani Walsh (S. Raffiai)

Latitude         49.15
Longitude:       122.6
Distance to Equator: 5470.5km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3
Calculated Earth circumference:   39168.78 km

Comments:
It was amazing how Eratosthenes did this problem without any technology or anything to help him.


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