1. General Comments In a presentation, you are telling a story
Make the story short and succinct with only the minimum amount of material to make the story complete
Is your story understandable without a speaker?
Use color, different font sizes and graphics to bring your story alive, but avoid light colors on light backgrounds
Always practice your presentation - know your slides “inside and out”!!
Never read your slides verbatim!
Rule-of-thumb: one slide a minute requires some fast talking

2. Title of Presentation
Names of Lab Partners
Title slide

3. Overview Objective Background Theory Experimental Setup
Experimental Procedure
Results
Uncertainty Analysis
Conclusions
Overview slide

4. Objectives Include only key objectives
Explain objectives to audience rather than reading them
Be sure each objective is addressed in the results and conclusion slides
You will be judged on how well you have met the objectives
Objectives slide

5. Background Orient your audience to the problem
Establish a common level of understanding
Remember the technical level of your audience
Background slide

6. Theory Summarize key equations and concepts
Define variables that are not obvious to the audience
Theory slide

7. Experimental setup slide
Describe the experimental apparatus including the instrumentation used and the uncertainty associated with each instrument
Use sketches and/or drawings of the setup
Experimental setup slide

8. Experimental Procedure
Briefly describe the experimental procedure either by listing the steps, or using a flow-chart
Experimental Procedure slide

9. Experimental Results slide
Use plots and tables to present your results
Plots must be clear and appropriately labeled with a title and legend
All experimental data must be shown with error bars
Do not present raw data, only present data relevant to the objectives of the experiment
Experimental Results slide

10. Experimental Results (cont.)
Explain each plot by pointing out to the audience the important features of the data
Explain how your results meet the objectives of the experiment
Experimental Results slide

11. Uncertainty Analysis slide
Summarize your uncertainty analysis
Assess the main sources of error in your data
Uncertainty Analysis slide

12. Conclusions Summarize key conclusions
Link conclusions to the objectives of the experiment
Conclusions slide