Winter Term 2002

Instructor:    Galen C. Duree Jr., PhD

Office:    Room DL102                       Phone:    872-6025                                 Box:    182

E-Mail:   Galen.Duree@rose-hulman.edu

Office Hours:       3:25 PM – 4:30 PM   M                     3:25 PM - 5:00 PM   T Th F

                             9:00 AM - 9:55 AM   T Th F

The lab reports for "Torques/Moments" are due Tuesday, February 11, 2003 in the green bin outside my office by 5:00 PM.

The experiment that will be performed on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 is entitled "Resonance in Strings".  The description of this experiment begins on page 5-1 in the lab manual.

A complete lab report must have the following sections:

Title, P.I. Name (explicitly indicate who was the P.I.), Assistant Name, Date that the experiment was performed (NOT the date that the report was turned in!)

*Abstract - a brief description of what you were investigating, how you conducted the experiment and your conclusions based on your experience.  The abstract should not be a discussion of what you are going to do in the lab.  The abstract cannot be written before you have analyzed your data.  In the lab notebook, skip a page or two so that you can write this in at the beginning of the report after you have analyzed your data.

Introduction - a discussion about any details that you think would help someone perform the experiment.  This may include a discussion about the model or about the method selected for performing the tests.

**Procedure - a detailed description of what you did in the lab.  The raw data must appear in this section immediately following the description about how the data was taken.   A person must be able to read your procedure section and be able to duplicate your results without having the lab manual present.

Analysis - a sample of the calculations made in the lab.  This section should include a sample of the error calculations and propagations used in your analysis.   The final data that you are analyzing to generate conclusions, the values with uncertainties must be shown in this section.  The actual calculations for each one does not have to be included, as long as you show an example for one, but you may include them all if you wish.  Any graphs or printouts that are placed in your notebook must occupy one whole page and be trimmed to fit within the page and not hang outside of the notebook.

*Conclusion - this section must have a conclusion that is based on your experiments and analysis.  If your conclusions do not following logically from your analysis, your grade will be deducted significantly.  This section must also contain a brief description of significant factors that you think affected your data, in particular, the uncertainties in your data (factors that contributed to the error in your experiment).

The asterisks indicate the sections that I will pay closest attention to.

Modified February 23, 2005 by Galen C. Duree Jr.