A title and evaluation page, provided by the department, should be filled in and made page one of each report. The report should include the sections described below. Help and direction in performing these operations using Microsoft Word and Excel will be provided. A report will usually include the following sections. For more information on each section see the section entitled Reports on pages 10-24 in Chapter 1 of the laboratory text, Experiments in Physical Chemistry by Shoemaker, Garland, and Nibler, 6th ed.
Earlier editions have much the same information.
These pages give general information on reports, a sample report, and a discussion of what goes in each section of the report. This includes a sentence or two about the reason or purpose for the experiment. This section will usually not exceed a few paragraphs or a few hundred words. It also includes general description of the methods to be used. In this section a brief summary or derivation of pertinent mathematical relationships is included.