Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bennett Middle School
School Location: Salisbury, Maryland
Email Address: akumza_at_wcboe.org
Experimenter: Sarah D.
Latitude 38.37N
Longitude: 75.59W
Distance to Equator: 4264
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50
Calculated Earth circumference: 30700
Comments:
We assumed that the earth was round. Our calculations may be slighty off beause we didn't measure at percisly solar noon.
Received on Mon Sep 24 2012 - 10:50:29 PDT