Monday, 20 May 2013

GUIDE TO LABORATORY REPORTING


The proposal which we have been handling several professors of the Department of physical P.U.J. is to adopt the scheme's presentation of scientific articles, obviously adapted to the purposes of teaching, we propose. We think that it is a way, quite clear and that it enables students to express their ideas in their own style, without breaking with the established rigor among the professional community of engineers and scientists.
                     

Laboratory reporting scheme.



Header.

Title and number of the experience, names, date, and if you want the University Logo.

Introduction.
A single paragraph to summarize the purpose of the experience with a brief outline of the method used.

Experimental details.
A graphic of the experimental setup used, useful for defining the nomenclature that students are to be used during the theoretical developments, accompanied by a descriptive form of the physical variables measurement paragraph.

Results and discussion.
It is definitely the most important part of the custom lab report. Proper presentation of experimental in form of tables data and/or graphs, taking into account your uncertainty.Then is a linearization of the data, and is physically interpreted meanings of slopes and intercepts, and the quantities obtained, contrasting them with the values predicted by the theory. Discussed on the validity of the measurement method used, on Budgets for theoretical model and the possible causes of error both the RIA and the experiment are quantified.

Conclusions.
The purpose is to say something different from what is already established in the books. These conclusions should be the result of the discussion previously performed on the experimental results.

Bibliography.
In accordance with the rules of TheHarvardWriters

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