Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bennett Middle School
School Location: Salisbury,Maryland
Email Address: akuzma.wcboe.org
Experimenter: N. Verbits and A. Seagraves
Latitude 38.37
Longitude: 75.59
Distance to Equator: 4264
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 38
Calculated Earth circumference: 40395.79
Comments:
We did the experiment around 12:30, so the circumferenece may not be the most exact. Our angle will be more acute then normal, because we conducted our experiment before solar noon.
Received on Mon Sep 24 2012 - 10:03:47 PDT