Q1: An example of an appropriate date and title would be:
- Experiment 3 15th Feb
- Analysis of Lemonade Anna Lysis 30th October 2012
- To determine the citric acid concentration (via titriation) and sugar content (via density measurements) of a commercial lemonade beverage
Q2: Experimental details can be in the form of:
- A write up on a scrap piece of paper
- A write up in your lab book
- A write up in your partners lab book
- Your lab script, because there is no need to write it down at all because it is written down in the lab script and it can be annotated
Q3: Experimental details can be:
- Written as bullet points or paragraphs
- Drawn in pictures
- Cut out of the lab script and glued into your lab book
Q4: When writing experimental details you must:
- Write in third person and in past tense
- Write "I" for every procedure you carry out and use present tense
- Ignore grammar and tense as this is not important in a scientific report
- Write in second person and address the reader directly
- Written on your glove
- Remembered in your head
- Written in your lab book
- Shouted across the lab to your colleague to write them in your book
- Only your measurements
- Only your error estimates
- Measurements and error estimates
- A description of how you got the results
Q7: If you feel the results you are obtaining are utter hooey you should:
- Copy them from a colleague
- Modify them to improve your results and to fit your theory
- Use your own results and reference results from other colleagues (if appropriate AND ONLY AFTER you have the Lab Managers permission to do so)
- Give up and go home
Q8: When obtaining spectra you must:
- Print out a copy (since this way you don't need to record/remember the filename since it will be written on the top of the printout)
- Write down key values only (since this is all you need) - The entire spectrum (or rather the location of the spectrum file) needs to be recorded, since there may be other values you need to extract from it (that you do not at this stage realize are key) and it is likely that a copy of the spectra will need to be included in your report.
- Record the file name and the contents of the file in your lab book