Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College

From: leung_hoi_man_at_yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 07:20:39 PDT

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

School Name:     Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College
School Location: HK

Email Address:   leung_hoi_man_at_yahoo.com.hk
Experimenter:    LeungHoiMan

Latitude         ???
Longitude:       ???
Distance to Equator: 2625

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 18.6
Calculated Earth circumference:   50806.5km

Comments:
well,it is disappointed with the error of 27 per cent. However, we will think and judge what we do to make this big mistake. We didn't measue the shandow at 20of April. It is because at that day, the sunshine would be in the equator.

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