Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: cqb101_at_gmail.com
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 10:56:19 PST


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

School Name:     Marblehead High School
School Location: 2 Humphrey St.
Marblehead Ma. 01945

Email Address:   cqb101_at_gmail.com
Experimenter:    Peter Horne

Latitude         N 42 30' 14.7"
Longitude:       W 70 50' 49.6"
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 Miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 41
Calculated Earth circumference:   24,849.9 Miles

Comments:
Physics rules.


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