Lab Report Sheets and Other Information

Read (and maybe print out) any Lab Notes (linked from experiment numbers in table below) and the Report Sheet before doing each experiment. It is much easier and faster to grade typed, as opposed to hand-written, lab reports. Typed reports may be returned sooner than untyped ones. The PDF (portable document format) files cannot be saved in a manner that will allow you to go back and edit them unless you have Acrobat Professional (this is not the free one) or some means of converting PDF files into something else. If you do get creative with the report sheets, try to keep them formatted so that answers appear on the same part of the page as in the original. Also, the space provided for answers on the Report Sheets is indicative of how long your answer should be and excessively long answers may be penalized. You might want to type out the answers to the questions in a text-type file (Word?) that you can go back and edit and then paste (electronically or via the old-fashioned method with scissors and paste/tape) the answers into the PDF file. You can save the PDF easily if you have a computer running Mac OS X; if not, there are free programs available (CutePDF being one) that will allow you to save PDF files.

Experiment numbers given below are the Experiment numbers for each experiment. The loose-leaf version of the lab text also has Laboratory numbers, which are not the same as the Experiment numbers. Consider yourselves to be warned!