Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bennett Middle School
School Location: Salisbury MD
Email Address: akuzma_at_wcboe.org
Experimenter: Sarah D.
Latitude 38.37N
Longitude: 75.59W
Distance to Equator: 4264
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 38
Calculated Earth circumference: 40395.8
Comments:
An important factor in this experiment was to do it at solar noon. We did not perform the experiment at solar noon. so the circumference of the Earth may be inaccurate. Other than that the experiment was fun.:)
Received on Mon Sep 24 2012 - 10:55:15 PDT