Format for Lab Reports

Because this is a laboratory report, and not a paper to be submitted for publication, some detailconcerning calculations should be provided. For example, a calculation of the acceleration dueto gravity from pendulum measurements might be presented as:g = 4π 2 l / T 2 = 4 π 2 (1.00 m) / (2.00 sec) 2 = 9.9 m/sec 2Errors in the measurement of l and T were estimated based on repeated observations of thesame system. A maximum error estimate of g is thus:∆g = (4π 2 /T 2 ) ∆l + (8π 2 l/T 3 ) ∆T= (4 π 2 / (2.00 sec) 2 ) (0.01 m) + (8 π 2 (1.00 m) / (2.00 sec) 2 ) (0.02 sec)= 0.3 m/sec 2The error estimate should never be reported with more than one or two digits. Also, the precision of thecalculated result should match the precision of the error estimate.