FoxTrot by Bill Amend for September 22, 1993

Transcript:

Morton: So what's the story on this lab? Peter: Let's see... "using the stopwatch, ruler, string and lead weight provided, derive an empirical relationship between a simple pendulum's length and its period of small oscillation. Morton: What a pain. Peter: No kidding. Morton: Mr. Abernathy, are you sure we can't just reduce it to a differential equation and solve it that way? Peter: Egad-this ruler's metric.