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asic do’s and don’tsDON’T• let your lab report get too long! (main body < 2500 words)• spend too much time regurgitating theoretical derivations.Keep the theory section short and sweet ( < 500 words)• write a separate “error analysis” section. Discussion ofuncertainty should be embedded in data & analysis sections• worry too much about getting a preconceived / acceptedvalue, although you should still compare to previous work.• give more significant digits than your uncertainty estimatesallow. NO : 1.3334 ± 0.3321 eV YES : 1.3 ± 0.3 eV• get started the night before! Preparation shows!
eferences and attribution• You must include references your sources andinclude attribution• Wikipedia is not sufficient for most material: reference(and read) original sources• Copy-paste is never acceptable
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