Laboratory notebooks.

You are required to purchase a bound, gridded paper, notebook that are supplied by the Dept. The cost is $6.00. The notebook is used to record your initial preparations, experimental setups, experimental methods and data collection for each experiment. These notebooks are the journal for your work and must include:

• a plan comprising a short summary of the aims of the experiment and the procedures to be used. The plan is written before starting the experiment by reading the manual.
• a ``procedures record'' that is written during the project and that acts as a record of all experimental work. It will contain notes, diagrams, etc., on how you set-up and performed the experiment and notes, tables, etc., on the measurements you made and data you collected.
• an ``analysis record'' that is written both during the project and after the project and that acts as a record of all calculational work. It will contains notes, calculations, graphs, etc., as needed to interpret your measurements.

No need for beautiful sentences or full sentences here - the emphasis is fully documenting all experimental work - but it must be legible and readable for the instructor.