What to turn in

I would like a single report from each pair, with both names on it. The report should include whatever graphs you used, but a bunch of graphs do not make a report. You should explain, in the style I suggested in my example:

• What you set out to discover.

• How the experimental apparatus works.

• How, in theory, you expect the data to look, given an idealized model of the system.

• How, in fact, the data look.

• What, if anything, we can infer from the data.

• What anomalies there are in the data (things that deviate from our theoretical expectation), and any explanation you have for them. By the way, it is ok to acknowledge the existence of these anomalies even if you can't explain them.

Report data sparingly. Do not overwhelm me with uninterpreted graphs. Use more words than numbers. Never report a number without units (unless it is truly dimensionless). Label the axes on all graphs. Write on the graphs.