Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Northwoods Montessori

From: nikhil@nargund.com
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 04:32:54 PST

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

School Name:     Northwoods Montessori
School Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Email Address:   nikhil@nargund.com
Experimenter:    Nikhil (and Marla) Nargundkar

Latitude         33 d 50 m
Longitude:       084  d 15 m
Distance to Equator: 3,762.6 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 33.7
Calculated Earth circumference:   39,236.8 km

Comments:
We used a stick 1.5 meters long and used a level to make sure it was straight. Our shadow was exactly 1 meter long!

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