Sinking Marble Lab
Lab report requirements
Format
• 1 working page
– Notes, initial data tables, etc.
• Paper
– Title
– Introduction
– Methods
– Results
– Discussion
– Literature cited
Introduction
• Background information—separate ¶
– Velocity/speed and terminal velocity
– Acceleration and gravity
– Viscosity
– Purpose of the experiment
Methods
• Past tense
• Paragraphs
• reproducibility
results
• Text
• Tables
• Graphs
– Time-distance graph
discussion
• Explain the motion of the marble as
it fell through the shampoo
• Did the marble reach terminal
velocity? How do you know?
• Was the marble accelerating?
Explain how you know this
• What was the average speed of the
marble—show calculations
Literature Cited
• Cite all of your sources (APA)
– In-text
– In Literature Cited section
• Example, (textbook)
Wysession, M., Frank, D, and S. Yancopoulos. 2004.
Physical Science: concepts in action. Prentice Hall,
Needham, MA. 926 pp.
In-text: (Wysession et al, 2004)