Why are lab reports required?
The goal of having you turn in lab reports, as opposed to simply answers to lab questions, is to provide you experience in creating clear, concise documents in short, to create a technical report. These documents should not be overly long (a maximum a couple of pages, single-spaced). Please make use of embedding hyperlinks in your documentation, so that a reader can easily access additional reference material that your work is based on. Click here for more details and a rough example of a report. Who does your work? You are encouraged to discuss amongst each other the assignments as well as methodologies for solving the problems. Feel free to work in groups or alone as you please, in order to come up with a methodology for solving the problems. However, when you turn in an assignment, make sure that you have done the calculations and analysis, that you have written the answers, that you have made the maps, and that the answers are in your own words. Plagiarism is a serious offense at t