Each day the report is late, will result in points being deducted from the report until a maximum one half of the availible points remain. Points will be based on results, reports and depth of understanding of the experiment as communicated in the report. Don't worry I'll remember what I did. I'll just write it down on this scratch paper and fill it in later. These are all questions we have, lab notebooks are not the students most favorite part.
Communication is an essential aspect of conducting laboratory experiments.
Much of the value of collecting experimental data are lost if proper records are not kept. It is important to record all experimental findings in a notebook at the time that the measurements and observations are made. It may be convenient to record information on some scrap paper with the good intentions of copying the data into a notebook at a later time, but it is all to easy to lose these pieces of paper and forget exactly what you did. This is particularly important because several of our experiments stretch out for two or three weeks. Additionally, If you become employed in industrial setting, you job will depend on keeping good records.