Lab report requirements Sinking Marble Lab Lab report requirements

Format 1 working page Paper Notes, initial data tables, etc. Title Introduction Methods Results Discussion Literature cited

Introduction Background information—separate ¶ Velocity/speed and terminal velocity Acceleration and gravity Viscosity Purpose of the experiment

Methods Past tense Paragraphs reproducibility

results Text Tables Graphs Time-distance graph

discussion Explain the motion of the marble as it fell through the shampoo Did the marble reach terminal velocity? How do you know? Was the marble accelerating? Explain how you know this What was the average speed of the marble—show calculations

Literature Cited Cite all of your sources (APA) Example, (textbook) In-text In Literature Cited section Example, (textbook) Wysession, M., Frank, D, and S. Yancopoulos. 2004. Physical Science: concepts in action. Prentice Hall, Needham, MA. 926 pp. In-text: (Wysession et al, 2004)