When your professors write papers, they often collaborate with other researchers and work on problems as a group. Therefore, they must acknowledge their help and contributions, so as to not offend their collaborators. Similarly, when you perform experiments, you need to acknowledge the help that you receive from other people. Maybe there are geniuses who can perform experiments and come up with new theories completely independently of any existing theories or results. But I have never seen or heard of such geniuses.
Every piece of work is built on something that already exists.
When you do experiments in this course, you will use theories and results from your text book and you have a lab manual that you use for the experiments. Therefore, you need to reference these sources. In this experiment we studied the motion of a wooden block down an inclined frictionless plane. In particular, we were interested in graphing the postion, velocity, and acceleration of the block as a fuction of time as the block slid down the plane. Experiment Explain how you did this lab.