Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Maktab Teknik Sultan Saiful Rijal
School Location: Spg 125, Jln Muara, Bandar Seri Begawan BB2313, Brunei Darussalam
Email Address: takahashi_brunei_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter: MTSSR Team 8: Penyukat Jalan Sdn. Bhd. (ND/GMT/16) (Md Amirul Wafie b Tahmit, Al_Aelleff b Romzi, Nuraailah bt Roslan, Nur Hazirah bt Hj Mohaimin, and Abdul Hafeez b Abas)
Latitude 4 55' 30" N
Longitude: 114 55' 40" E
Distance to Equator: 546 km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 3 deg 44 min 31 sec
Calculated Earth circumference: 52528.83973 km
Comments:
This group used a map to find the distance to the equator.
Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 19:13:24 PDT