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
Latitude 35' 46' 31.28"
Longitude: 81' 15' 59.38"
Distance to Equator: 2460.76 miles
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 36'
Calculated Earth circumference: 24,606.7
Comments:
It was very cloudy for the past several days. I finally shot the angle with a Quadrant and used some geometry to figure out my solution.
Received on Mon Sep 26 2011 - 12:12:41 PDT