Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: sharon.jupp_at_bigpond.com
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 20:28:24 PDT


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

School Name:     Magnetic Island State School Science Club
School Location: Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia

Email Address:   sharon.jupp_at_bigpond.com
Experimenter:    Science Club

Latitude         19 deg 8 m
Longitude:       146 deg 50 m
Distance to Equator: 2126 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 19.2
Calculated Earth circumference:   39864.1

Comments:
It is quite tricky to get the stick level, but great fun. Sorry we are late with our results - computer problems and holidays! 


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