Parallax in the park

Stephen W. Hughes; Sean Powell; Joshua Carroll; Michael Cowley

doi:10.1088/0143-0807/36/6/065030

Parallax in the park

Stephen W. Hughes, Sean Powell, Joshua Carroll, Michael Cowley

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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%.

Original language	English
Article number	065030
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	European Journal of Physics
Volume	36
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/36/6/065030
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2015

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