Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <Jason_guptill_at_catawbaschools.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     HM Arndt Middle School
School Location: Hickory, North Carolina

Email Address:   Jason_guptill_at_catawbaschools.net
Experimenter:    Jason Guptill and class

Latitude         35' 46 N
Longitude:       81' 16 W
Distance to Equator: 2448

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35'
Calculated Earth circumference:   25169

Comments:
Loved doing this again. We had the whole eighth grade participate this year!
Received on Thu Sep 23 2010 - 05:41:52 PDT

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