Lab Report Format

100 Points

General Information Lab Reports should be easy to read

and precisely convey essential information about the experiment.

The reader should be able to find the information easily so everything in the report should be clearly labeled.

The report must contain the following parts.

The Abstract The abstract should be a short

description of what was done in the experiment plus background information about the scientific concepts involved.

The results of the experiment should be included in this section.

A good abstract is approximately 3 paragraphs that are seven to eight sentences.

Materials and Methods A list of procedures and equipment

should be included in this section. The list does not have to be all inclusive

but should cover the major pieces of equipment and important procedures followed in the experiment.

The objective is to provide enough information so that the experiment can be duplicated.

Results This section is where all the graphs,

calculations, and statistical analysis are presented.

Care must be taken to label all of the components listed above.

The report should include salt and D.I. water boiling point graphs, and density calculations.

Also, the class average, average deviation, and percent error for the difference between salt and D.I. water boiling points should be clearly shown.

Discussion

This section should include a discussion of the precision and accuracy of the experiment.

A discussion of possible errors should also be included.