Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: NYC iSchool
School Location: 131 Ave of The Americas New York, NY 10013
Email Address: skg4059_at_mail.nycischool.org
Experimenter: Karen G, Ariana B, Samantha P
Latitude 40. 47' N
Longitude: 73. 58' W
Distance to Equator: 4,497.0264 KM
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 38.7
Calculated Earth circumference: 41,832.80372 KM
Comments:
We measured a notebook and it was the closest circumference to the actual circumference of the Earth. The possible error that we could had made was measurement error.
Received on Fri Sep 24 2010 - 06:19:23 PDT