Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Jefferson Middle School

From: dwilliams@osd.wednet.com
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 09:35:42 PST

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

School Name:     Jefferson Middle School
School Location: 2200 Conger Ave. Olympia, WA 98502

Email Address:   dwilliams@osd.wednet.com
Experimenter:    Dave Williams

Latitude         47-03-08 N lat
Longitude:       122-55-34 W long
Distance to Equator: 2412

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 59
Calculated Earth circumference:   24,659.8 mi

Comments:
Fun project. My students were amazed at the math skill of Eratosthenes. What a math geek!

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