This is a laboratory skills manual that introduces common laboratory methods and the writing requirements of laboratory reports in physics experiments.
This document serves as a guide for students in the physics with calculus lab sequence at De Anza College. It compiles essential laboratory techniques ranging from maintaining a proper lab book to performing statistical analysis on experimental data. The content is based on conventional techniques used by research physicists, intended to prepare students for a research environment.
The notebook must be 10" X 7 7/8" and quadrille ruled.
You must write in the lab book with pen only and never erase anything.
A hand-constructed graph should be at least a half page or larger in size.