Experiment Mark
As soon after you have completed an experiment, approach your demonstrator to have him or her attest that it is indeed completed. Your demonstrator should then sit down with you and your partner (if you have one!) to discuss the experiment you have just done. Your demonstrator will base the experiment mark on his or her evaluation of your notebook and your understanding of the experiment you have just completed. You may not start a new experiment without your demonstrators permission.
Certain of your experiments may be marked by another demonstrator depending on arrangements made between the tutors.
Criteria for the Experiment Mark
This mark will be mainly based on the work you have recorded in your notebook. Your account of the experiment you have done will be expected to be comprehensible and well organized. During the marking of your notebook, your demonstrator will be looking at your performance in the following categories:
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adequate and careful pre-experiment preparation (for the first set of experiments on Classical Mechanics, for example, this will be evidenced by correct answers to the Preparatory Questions; in others you may be asked to show evidence of having consulted the References, etc). data displayed as it was taken, in well-labeled tables errors in data indicated |
graphs titled, with both axes correctly labeled units used throughout data self-consistent graphs and diagrams used appropriately calculations clearly indicated correct and intelligent use of error analysis evidence of good organization and experimental procedures sufficient description to make clear exactly what was done |
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an overall impression of careful and accurate work, well understood, with "reasonable" measurements, errors and results indications of limitations of the experimental method, with comments on possible extensions |
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