Basic structure of the lab report:
* Title
* Purpose of lab
* Your hypothesis (from the earlier homework)
* Your hypothesis (from the earlier homework)
* Data table - include all columns from your data, AND 2 more columns: calculated f, and percent error
- be sure to calculate these for all trials where you have numerical data for real images
- be sure to calculate these for all trials where you have numerical data for real images
* Sample calculation for focal length (your data table will have ALL of the calculated values, but there is only need for one calculation to be shown)
* Graph(s) if you made any (they are not required, but a graph of di versus do might be instructive)
* Conclusion - probably the biggest, most detailed part of the lab:
- Address your hypothesis.
- Give sources of error.
- Discuss how the image formation depends on object distance. Note if there "transition points", etc. This is the tough part of the conclusion (and the most mathematical).
- Give a general conclusion.
- Address your hypothesis.
- Give sources of error.
- Discuss how the image formation depends on object distance. Note if there "transition points", etc. This is the tough part of the conclusion (and the most mathematical).
- Give a general conclusion.
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