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1) You do not need to type your report. You can write it in PEN. <br>
However, if you do make sure it's fairly neat, certainly
neat <br>
enough for someone to read it easily. <br>
<br>
If you type your report I would suggest writing out the
sample <br>
calc. It can be quite tedious to type eqns and I don't want
you <br>
"wasting" time typing them up when you don't have to. <br>
<br>
2) You do not have to use Excel. However, I would suggest learning
<br>
how to use it. It will come in handy later in the
semester. There <br>
are a few labs which will require a lot of calculations and
graphs. <br>
They will go much quicker if you use Excel. Besides, it's a
very <br>
useful skill to have. <br>
<br>
3) If you use Excel (or a similar program) you can have it do the
calculations.<br>
That's really the best thing to do in terms of saving time.<b>You
will still have</b><br>
<b>to show sample calculations in the report.</b> Just
printing the equations as<br>
they appear in Excel is not sufficient.<br>
<br>
If you make the Excel sheet look like the report sheet (with
titles, headings,<br>
etc.) you can print the Excel sheet and turn that in as the
data page. You <br>
do not have to copy all the data over to the data sheet.
However, you<br>
still need to turn in the data page from the manual (even if
blank). <br>
You also have to make sure you have units (best to put them
in the <br>
headings) and have the correct number of sig. fig. You
can't set <br>
sig. fig. in Excel but can set the decimal places to get the
correct <br>
sig. fig. <br>
<br>
4) If you are typing your report using something like Word and
you've <br>
done your graphs in Excel just print them directly from
Excel. You <br>
should set the <b>margins </b>to <b>no more than 0.1
inches</b> for your graphs<br>
in Excel (if set to zero inches Excel will generally default
to the printer's<br>
default for margins). If you then transfer them to Word it
messes up the<br>
margins. Print the graphs from Excel and simply insert them
in your<br>
report. It's probably best to print the report sheets from
Excel as well<br>
if you've done them in Excel. <br>
<br>
Dr. Zellmer
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