A protocol for Lab Reports
Your Lab Report must at least have the
following identifiable features:
- A Cover Page signed by each member of the team
which produced the report.
A signature on a report
means that each person signing attests to the
fact that each contributed approximately
equally to the work. Each member of the team is responsible
for any errors; each member of the team may be asked to
explain any detail of a report.
- A complete statement of the problem
- An analysis of the problem, complete
with carefully drawn sketch which contains a complete
explanation of the solution, derives and explains
all equations and sets up all calculations
that need to be done. This may be done as part of a Maple
worksheet and should contain carefully annotated graphs
of the pertinent functions. This is the most important part
of the report.
- Details of the calculations (this can be an annotated
Maple worksheet. It must be clear to the reader what each calculation
is intended to do. This can be done with comments. The reader will
not provide them.) Most of the graphs will be in this section.
It should be clear to the reader why one doing a certain graph
before it is actually done. This can be done with a comment.
Features of importance on a graph should be labeled and interpreted
either on the graph itself or immediately following it.
- Conclusions and interpretations.
At the very least this should briefly explain how what
has been done answers the original question or solves
the original problem. If appropriate, it should refer back
to graphs and relate features of the graphs to numerical
calculations.
A good report will not be very long - probably three to five
pages, excluding graphs.
The report should be free of any extraneous
calculations (e.g. material that should have been
cut out of a worksheet.)
Although the computer is certainly useful you do not
need to use it if you can do the same job without it.
Certainly, the graphs and actual calculations are most
easily done with the machine but you can take them off
the screen and write them on paper if you wish.
Your lab report will be graded for mathematical correctness (40%),
clarity of exposition (30%), English (15%), and style (15%).
THIS IS NOT SIMPLY A PROBLEM TO SOLVE. THIS COUNTS 5% OF YOUR
FINAL GRADE. YOUR INSTRUCTORS TAKE IT SERIOUSLY - YOU SHOULD TOO.
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