LabReports-Quia.ppt

Lab Reports Everything You Didn’t Want to Know! Components of a Lab Report Title Purpose Procedure Safety Data Calculations Conclusion How to Write a Lab Report Calculations * Show a sample of how the calculation was performed. * Usually use first data set * Write Formula * Sub in #s with units * Answer with units rounded off to the correct # of sig  figs Calculations: D = M V D = 5.40 g 2.0 ml D = 2.7 g/ml Conclusion It is the most important part of the lab report. It is where you tell me what you learned from the lab. It always relates back to the purpose of the lab. It should include a discussion of sources of error. It is written in the third person. It could suggest further investigations. Conclusion: Different materials seem to have different densities. The five cubes have the same volume but their masses are different and consequently they have different densities. Aluminum, copper and lead have densities that are very different from each other. Of these three aluminum has the smallest density and lead has the largest density. Brass and iron have similar densities. The density of the copper, brass, lead and iron cubes are exactly the same as the values reported in the CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. The density of aluminum should have been 2.7 g/ml. A source of error in this experiment is the measurement of the volume of the cubes using the water displacement method. When the cubes were dropped into the graduated cylinder water tended to splash out. This made the volume of the cube smaller than it really was and the density of the cube larger than the actual value. This would account for the measured density of aluminum being 3.0 g/ml. Another experiment might be to measure the density of aluminum cubes that have different volumes. If the densities of these cubes were the s