1. Schedule Today: Completion of Project 2 ◦ Finish any final experiments ◦ Write reports ◦ Group assignments for Project 3 available Tuesday, Oct 19: Work on Preplan for Project 3 ◦ Due: Project 2 Reports, Notebooks, Team Evaluations Thursday, Oct 21 OR Friday, Oct 22: Project 3 experimental work ◦ Nuclear field trip involves 13 people ◦ Option of team collecting data on Th or F  You must have at least 2 team members  Self-scheduled times on Friday  Choked flow, Pipes and fittings – may not need this day to complete the project ◦ Due: Preplans for Project 3, Safety sheets

2. Schedule - 2 Tuesday, Oct 26: Experimental work Thursday, Oct 28: ◦ Meet in Project 2 Teams to revise Project 2 report ◦ Project 3 experimental work Tuesday, Nov 2: Complete Project 3 experimental work ◦ Due at beginning of class: Project 2 revised report ◦ Project 2 grade based on revised report Thursday, Nov 4: Work on Project 3 report Tuesday, Nov 9: Team critiquing of Project 3 reports ◦ Due: Project 3 reports posted on line

3. Project 2: Abbreviated Reports Executive Summary Abstract – not required in abbreviated report Introduction (what is this all about?) ◦ Problem statement (how did it all start?) ◦ Objectives (what needed to be accomplished?) ◦ DO NOT discuss methods or results here

4. Abbreviated Reports (continued) Theoretical/Analytical Background (what principles apply?) ◦ How can the answer be determined? ◦ Assumptions!!! Methods (what did you do?) Results/Analysis/Discussion (what did you get, and what does it mean?) ◦ Establish the validity of your results  Compare to theory, published data, etc.  Error Analysis Summary/Conclusions (tie it all together) ◦ Draw and support your conclusions

5. Abbreviated Reports (continued) Appendix ◦ Neatly organized ◦ Raw data ◦ Example calculation of analysis  Show equations – Excel columns of numbers inadequate  Some explanation of what is being calculated  Still must have a logical flow  Not a hodgepodge of equations and numbers

6. Page Requirements? No Executive summaries should be concise – definitely not more than a page Introduction – Again be concise, but lay out what the problem is and what your plan is. Results ◦ Use tables and graphs where possible  Don’t display the same data in both a table and a graph  Use graphs to elucidate and illustrate trends and significant relationships; use tables for quantitatively important information ◦ Raw data goes in appendix; final results pertinent to the problem statement go here ◦ Logical discussion of the results and how they apply to the problem statement ◦ Concise, but complete – no page limit Conclusions ◦ Not a rehash of everything ◦ Concise, but tie it together and state important conclusions and the rationale behind them. Verbose (too many pages) or inadequate (too few pages) reports will lose points