Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: awalko_at_wpis.org
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 10:12:49 PDT


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

School Name:     Woodside park International School
School Location: Friern barnet Road  London N11 3DR  -  UK

Email Address:   awalko_at_wpis.org
Experimenter:    Y10  (teacher Dr A. Walko)

Latitude         51n40
Longitude:       00w13
Distance to Equator: 5751 KM

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50
Calculated Earth circumference:   41407 Km

Comments:
We did our experiment on March 20th, as we had a lot of difficulties with the weather in London!


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