Review of Previous Laboratory Results

One of the most important goals of this course is to help you learn how to critically analyze and evaluate the data that you have obtained from each experiment. One unfortunate aspect of human nature is to procrastinate doing this analysis until the evening before your Lab Report is due. In order to help overcome this tendency and to evaluate whether you are staying current with the lecture and experimental material, we will pick at random a student at the beginning of each lab class to give a 5 minute review and interpretation of the method and data he or she collected during the previous lab. Any plots or figures or tables that you are expected to include in your Lab Report can be presented in a draft format at this time.