These labs are designated WI for purposes of the University writing-intensive course requirement. This means that your written work will be evaluated both for physics content and for technical writing correctness and style. Your course grade will be based almost entirely on your written work. You should obtain a bound laboratory notebook or computation book. … Read more
Say what you did; do not give directions for doing it, as in a lab manual. The past tense is best for describing what you did. Use correct symbols, not spelled-out Greek letters, etc. Hand-write them if necessary. All measurements should have errors and units. Exceptions are when the error is negligible, which should be commented upon, … Read more
The following notes discuss some of the common problems found in PHYS 480-1L written work. Write complete sentences, which contain a subject, a verb and possibly an object: “We started the counter.” Two sentences may be combined with “and” or with a semicolon “;” but not with a comma: “We started the counter and we … Read more