PHYS408W : Paper Format

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In no more than 300 words, briefly summarize your work. Report your final results and the level of agreement with theoretical predictions and/or accepted values.

1 Introduction

Discuss the significance of the work. That is, explain why it is useful and/or important to study the topic at hand. Most if not all of the things you measure in this course have already been measured, so you may want to take a historical approach to your introductions. Cite original or early measurements if you can find them.

2 Experiment

Describe the experiment, apparatus, and methods in enough detail to enable your reader to repeat your measurements with similar equipment. Include diagrams and pictures as needed. Discuss uncertainties in raw measurements, but save statistical analysis for the Analysis and Results section. Present raw measurements with uncertainties in tabular form if you can fit them into less than one page. Otherwise, show some representative data.

3 Analysis and Results

Describe how you extracted your final results from the raw measurements discussed in the Experiment section. Include key equations, and clearly relate all parameters to the experimental setup described in the Experiment section. Without including complete derivations of key equations, show enough important steps that an interested reader could reasonably be expected to fill in the rest.

4 Conclusions

Give a brief summary of your results, and compare them with theoretical predictions and/or accepted values. Discuss ways of improving your measurements.

5 Acknowledgments

Acknowledge significant help you received from people other than co-authors of the paper. (You are the sole author of your papers for this course.)

Bibliography

Properly cite any resources you use, including manuals provided with the equipment you used.

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