Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <ifeyiniwaumerah_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     Fayetteville Technical Community College
School Location: Fayetteville, NC

Email Address:   ifeyiniwaumerah_at_gmail.com
Experimenter:    Ifeyinwa Umerah

Latitude         78.9267
Longitude:       35.0672
Distance to Equator: 3896 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35
Calculated Earth circumference:   40073.14 km

Comments:
We calculated our results at solar noon.
Received on Wed Mar 21 2012 - 10:59:20 PDT

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