Parallax in the park
Physics Education
2015-10-05 v1
Abstract
This article describes a parallax experiment performed by undergraduate physics students at Queensland University of Technology. The experiment is analogous to the parallax method used in astronomy to measure distances to the local stars. The result of one of these experiments is presented in this paper. A target was photographed using a digital camera at five distances between 3 and 8 metres from two vantage points spaced 0.6 m apart. The parallax distances were compared with the actual distance measured using a tape measure and the average error was 0.5 +/- 0.9%.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.00445,
title = {Parallax in the park},
author = {Stephen Hughes and Sean Powell and Joshua Carroll and Michael Cowley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00445},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures, published in Eur. J. Phys