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romed
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calculating shadow 
Posted: 10 May 06 10:00 AM
  

can anyone help me

how do you calculate the length of a shadow of an object, given the latitute and height of the object

Thanks

 

 
 
wasel
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Re: calculating shadow 
Posted: 18 May 06 7:44 AM
  

 

Esalam Alikom, check out, The man that first measured the Earth's circumference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes 

and http://muweb.millersville.edu/~physics/exp.of.the.month/58/ 

Hope that works!
Good luck :P

 
  
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