Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Montrose School
School Location: Medfield, Massachusetts
Email Address: lhofer_at_montroseschool.org
Experimenter: Environmental Science Seniors
Latitude 42 11 14.7228
Longitude: -71 18 22.6758
Distance to Equator: 4691.23 km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 43.1
Calculated Earth circumference: 39186.56 km
Comments:
We worked in groups and averaged our five answers. Our result has a 2.22% error when compared to the known circumference, 40075 km.
Received on Thu Sep 20 2012 - 11:43:06 PDT