Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: cooney_scns_at_comcast.net
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 11:02:30 PST


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

School Name:     Marblehead High School
School Location: 2 Humphry Street
Marblehead MA
01945

Email Address:   cooney_scns_at_comcast.net
Experimenter:    Sarah Cooney

Latitude         N 42 degrees, 30', 14.7''
Longitude:       W 70 degrees, 50', 49.6''
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 41.5 degrees
Calculated Earth circumference:   24840.01 miles

Comments:
I enjoyed this lab. 


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