Eratosthenes Experiment Report

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Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 09:13:01 PDT

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

School Name:     Koinonia Center
School Location: Villa Rica, GA

Email Address:   misterub_at_comcast.net
Experimenter:    Jim Bellon

Latitude         334402N
Longitude:       845511W
Distance to Equator: 3747km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 33.46
Calculated Earth circumference:   40309.7km

Comments:
for our trig class, we measured lengths of stick and shadow and used inverse tangent to calculate angle.

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