18 Jul
2006
18 Jul
'06
9:20 p.m.
There are probably actual school experiments of this type.
My high school had ramps between wings, and a standard experiment in physics was to calculate G by timing golf balls rolling down the ramp. The trick was, they hadn't covered angular momentum yet, so the "experiment" was actually to see who was willing to fudge their numbers to make the answer come out right.