Lab Report - Due Monday 11/29!!!

Today we started our Lab Report for finishing up our Gravity Car project.  It can be hand-written, and it is due on Monday 11/29.  All of the components of the report are as follows:

Introduction (like the overview of your presentation)

Purpose (why you did the project, what you were trying to discover)

Hypothesis (already written on pg 33 of your notebook)

Materials (already written on blueprint in folder)

Methods/Procedure (use building log to write step-by-step instructions)

Results (table of data)

Graph (graph of data - only if multiple weights tested)

Conclusion (was your hypothesis correct? what did you discover?)

Today in class we wrote the Introduction and Purpose.  We are to finish the whole thing in class tomorrow so you don't have homework over the long weekend! Here is a link that will download the assignment:

Lab Report Assignment

Here is the lab-report checklist, which includes sentence starters to help you know what to write.  It will average about one paragraph per section/component (except for data and graph).

Lab Report Checklist

Happy Writing!

Updates!

We have just finished building our Gravity Cars! These are vehicles that are propelled solely by the force of gravity on a falling weight, which is connected to the axle and wheels of the car.

All groups need to have taken data on the time and distance their car travels on different amounts of weight. This week we are preparing our presentations for our Exhibition event, to take place this THURSDAY Nov. 18th from 6pm to 8pm.

WE'LL SEE YOU THERE!

PHYSICS RULES! Physics one-liners

Gravity is a downer 

Plasma is another matter

Black holes suck

Friction can be a drag sometimes

A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine

What did the neutrino say to the earth?  "Just passing through."

Quasars are far out.

The subatomic particle store had a sale last week.

Electrons: $0.10

Protons: $0.10

Neutrons: Free of charge

Q: How many quantum physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, once they have observed it is out it has already changed.