Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: H.M. Arndt Middle School
School Location: Hickory, North Carolina
Email Address: jason_guptill_at_catawbaschools.net
Experimenter: Jason Guptill and class
Latitude 36 08'.11"N
Longitude: 81 10'. 24" W
Distance to Equator: 25030
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 36
Calculated Earth circumference: 25300
Comments:
We have have had very cloudy weather here for a week. I drove to Wilkesboro, NC to get the reading. My students had to pretend to see the Sun and work their own angles.
Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 10:14:50 PDT