Showing posts with label radius of the earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radius of the earth. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Lab 1: Radius of the Earth at the beach

The instructions for the lab, for which we traveled to Santa Monica Beach!
lab1 wksht

The writeup, calculating for the radius and mass of the earth:
Lab 1
The major conclusions was an estimate of the radius of the earth that was three times too large (within an order of magnitude) and a mass estimate that was ~5000 times too large.