Exam Question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a building using a barometer" Professor expected answer: "take a reading at bottom, compare with reading on top, calculate height from difference in pressure" Student answers by saying: "take barometer to top of building, attach a rope to it, lower to street, then raise it, and measure the length of rope. Prof fails student, student appeals all the way to court; court rules student had answered the question asked, nothing in question about using knowledge of physics - orders test to be rewritten after court case, prof rewrote question to include "using your knowledge of physics" The student's answer: through the barometer off the roof and time it's fall...