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Engineering 5911 2011 Chemistry and Physics of Engineering Materials II Laboratory Manual Anand M. Sharan Dec. 28, 2010   RECOGNIZE THAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH MOST OF THE EQUIPMENT IN THE MATERIALS LABORATORY (OR ANY OTHER LABORATORY). VERY CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO YOU (OR TO THE EQUIPMENT) MAY OCCUR IF YOU PLAY WITH EQUIPMENT. SOME PIECES ARE CAPABLE OF STORING VAST AND UNSEEN QUANTITIES OF POTENTIAL AND/OR KINETIC ENERGY IN A VARIETY OF FORMS (MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, THERMAL, CHEMICAL). IF IT SHOULD BE UNEXPECTEDLY RELEASED IN YOUR PRESENCE BECAUSE YOU TWIDDLED A KNOB, FLICKED A SWITCH, OR FORCED A LEVER, THEN .... (Considerable damage has been caused this way to equipment in X1020, and some students have come close to serious injury). IF YOU ARE CURIOUS (AS YOU SHOULD BE), THEN ASK THE RESIDENT TECHNICIAN BEFORE YOU ACT. A DUMB QUESTION MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST ONE THAT YOU WILL EVER ASK.  FORMAT OF THE LABORATORY NOTES Laboratory notes Each student is expected to keep a laboratory notebook, as was the case in Engineering 2205 Chemistry and Physics of Engineering Materials I. You are expected to prepare your notes during the laboratory period. Your laboratory notes should enable you, and anyone else, to determine what you did during the laboratory session, even after some time has elapsed. You should sketch the equipment, note exactly what you did, and record all measurements, with the appropriate units. In experiments where you will be able to take repeated readings, do so, to enable you to treat the results statistically. All of this should be completed during the laboratory period, with none of it left for a later time. While your notes should be legible, they need not be super-neat. You will be expected to write in ink, except for drawings and graphs. Items can be crossed out or redrawn, and comments added beside items previously recorded. You will be judged on how readily it can be ascertained from your notes what you did and