Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Fayetteville Technical Community College
School Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Email Address: hensond4541_at_student.faytechcc.edu.com
Experimenter: Duwayne Henson
Latitude 35.0672N
Longitude: 79W
Distance to Equator: 3897km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35
Calculated Earth circumference: 40073.1km
Comments:
It was very interesting to measure a shadow to get a angle.
Received on Tue Mar 20 2012 - 10:49:27 PDT