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Re: Lab Report

At 14:24 -0500 2/3/02, Stuart Leinoff wrote:

My son sent me the following URL with (I believe) a tongue-in-cheek example of
an undergraduate physics lab report.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

I'm wondering if anyone else sees an element of truth in it?

Having been through this exercise (not that particular expt., but the
process described) many times, from both sides of the podium, I can
sympathize completely. I just wish some of my students who suffered
many of the same frustrations (as I did in trying to set up a lab
exercise that had a chance of working), had had the guts to write
their lab up in similar language.

Maybe if there were more lab reports of this nature, the quality of
lab exercises might be improved.

Hugh
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