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Physics Lab Report Format

The document outlines the key sections that should be included in a physics lab report: an objective stating the goal of the experiment, a method summarizing the procedure, a data section presenting results in an organized table with units, a data analysis section where calculations and graphs are used to address the objective, and a conclusion answering the original question and comparing results to other data.

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Physics Lab Report Format

The document outlines the key sections that should be included in a physics lab report: an objective stating the goal of the experiment, a method summarizing the procedure, a data section presenting results in an organized table with units, a data analysis section where calculations and graphs are used to address the objective, and a conclusion answering the original question and comparing results to other data.

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Physics Lab Report Format

Lab Report Format General Remarks: Part of your lab experience should be learning how to
organize and present your work in a scientific way. Any lab report should have the following
features:
It should be concise but should also contain the necessary details and well developed
explanations.
It should be organized. You should enable the reader to quickly find the information he or she
may be interested in.
It should contain all the relevant information and reasoning. You should enable the reader to
validate your conclusion. A possible way to achieve this is using the following framework:
Objective: State what you want to achieve in this experiment. A formal way to do this is
to state a question or hypothesis that you want to address. This should be the scientific goal of
the experiment, not the educational goal (though you should understand that too). One or two
well thought out sentences is all that you should need for this.
Method: You should include a summary of the lab procedure in your words; do not
merely copy what is in the manual. This section should demonstrate your understanding of
exactly what you measured, how you measured it, and why this measurement helps you answer
the question you posed in the objective section. You dont need to detail each step of math that
you will do in the analysis, just what your general approach will be for getting your raw data to
answer the question you are interested in. This section should not be more than about half a page.
Data: In this section you should include the raw data you measured. Be sure to present
your data in an organized manner (e.g. a data table) and to include units.
Data and Error Analysis: In this section you will manipulate the data in order to help
you address your question or hypothesis. Usually this entails performing calculations and/or
creating graphs of the data. You cannot draw any final conclusions from your data until you
think carefully about how well you can trust your data and what factors may have affected or
biased it.
Conclusion: Finally, after all this work, go back and answer the question you stated in
the beginning. Does your data allow you to support or reject your hypothesis, or is the data
inconclusive? Also do you have anything you can compare your results with (e.g. a value in the
literature, a second measurement, a measurement with a different method, other lab groups)?
How well does it compare to such a value?

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