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Final Project Report How-To
For All 200 Level Labs
Each group must submit a project report for it's lab project. Alternatively, each member of the group may submit his own report. Project reports should be typewritten and grammatically correct. Hand written equations may be included in typewritten reports if it is done neatly. All graphs must conform to the rules and procedures described in sections "Graphing Data" and "Data Reduction." The text of your project reports, excluding your calculation page(s), must be less than 160 lines in a font no smaller than 10 points. Laboratory instructors may choose to read only the first 160 lines and grade it based solely on that portion.
Generally speaking, each lab report follows an outline typical of published physics research. It should contain the following.
Cover/Title Page
The first page of your lab report is the title page. An acceptable title page must contain the following information
Your name and your student number.
The name(s) and student number(s) of your partner(s).
Underline the name(s) of the author(s).
The title and number of the project.
The course number (either 201, 202, 211, or 212) and the day of the week and time your section meets.
The date the project is due.
Include your abstract at the bottom of the title page.
Abstract
The abstract is a short paragraph, located at the bottom of the title page, stating what quantities you measured (e.g., the acceleration of gravity, test of Ohm's law, etc.), how you measured them (e.g., by dropping weights, measuring voltages and currents, etc.), and your results (e.g., the value of g with the uncertainty, the percent difference between observed and calculated resistances, etc.). The abstract should be only a few sentences, but it should nonetheless be clear and self-contained. As an example, a laboratory project that investigates the relationship between the phase of the moon and the length of a board might read as follows:
Abstract
We investigated the relationship between the phase of the moon and the length of a pine board. We measured the length of the board throughout one lunar month. Within uncertainties, our measurements of the length of the board were constant and we observed no correlation between the length of the board and the phase of the moon. We determined, by averaging our measurements, that the length of the board is (12.4 ± 0.6) cm.
Introduction/Background
The Introduction/Background section of your project report gives a context for your project. This section should contain background information, of an historical and theoretical nature, that explains why your measurements are interesting physics.
One hallmark of a technical document is its reliance on previous efforts in the field for which it is written. It takes advantage of references to quickly cover background