Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Waterloo East High

From: hirchd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 06:58:42 PDT


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

School Name:     Waterloo East High
School Location: Waterloo, Iowa

Email Address:   hirchd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us
Experimenter:    Shawn Thompson, Thane Soderstrom, Josh Mauldinauldin

Latitude         42 , 33 n
Longitude:       92 , 24 w
Distance to Equator: 4980

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 42
Calculated Earth circumference:   42,685

Comments:
this was fun.


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