Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Dryden High School
School Location: Dryden, Ontario, Canada
Email Address: lacey_s_s_at_hotmail.com
Experimenter: Michael and Lacey
Latitude 49' 47
Longitude: 92' 50
Distance to Equator: 5536km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 49.8
Calculated Earth circumference: 40,019km
Comments:
At first we had measured the wrong angle which left our results way off. After recalculating and getting a more precise angle to use, we found our answer to be more accurate.
Received on Wed Mar 21 2012 - 09:14:55 PDT