Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Alex Hope Elementary

From: Sly_guy29@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 13:58:45 PST

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

School Name:     Alex Hope Elementary
School Location: Langley,B.C., Canada

Email Address:   Sly_guy29@hotmail.com
Experimenter:    Ryan Artemenko

Latitude         49.16
Longitude:       122.6
Distance to Equator: 5470.5km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.28
Calculated Earth circumference:   39,168.78km

Comments:
Yes, I would like to take the opportunity to say that the group that I did this experiment  with got  48.5 percent each time on the measured shadow angle but the class average was 50.28. I found this experiment very accurate and educational.

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