Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: hirschd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us
Date: Mon Sep 29 2008 - 12:00:11 PDT


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

School Name:     West High School
School Location: Waterloo, Iowa

Email Address:   hirschd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us
Experimenter:    Joseph Troudt, Brent Dunlay

Latitude         42.5
Longitude:       92.4
Distance to Equator: 5500

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 46.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   36522.6

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