Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 23:51:18 PDT


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

School Name:     Liceo Scientifico "T.Tirinnanzi"
School Location: Legnano (Milan), Italy

Email Address:   luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi
Experimenter:    Prof. Luisa Muda

Latitude         45  35' 7.33''N
Longitude:       8  53' 56.73''E
Distance to Equator: 5044,35 Km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45,5 
Calculated Earth circumference:   39911 Km

Comments:
The experiment has been very interesting.We are very happy about our results because they are accurate: we couldn't imagine but we were pretty sure to get it. We are enclosing some picture taken during the experiment. Class 1A  Claudio, Luca, Roberto, Paolo R, Federica, Noemi, Giacomo, Alberto, Lucia, Anna, Irene, Andrea, Paolo F, Riccardo, Alice, Anna Maria.


Back to Eratosthenes Project homepage