Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Howell High School
School Location: 405 Squankum Yellowbrook Rd. Farmingdale N.J. 07727
Email Address: stwidle_at_frhsd.com
Experimenter: Susan Twidle
Latitude 40.2
Longitude: 74.1
Distance to Equator: 4467
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 40
Calculated Earth circumference: 40002.985 km
Comments:
We also did this during other times when the sun was not overhead and got much smaller circumferences.
Received on Fri Sep 25 2009 - 07:34:49 PDT