by Alan Usher

This page contains links to the online resources related to the Stage II Laboratory modules, PHY2017 and PHY2016.

Please read the General Guide to the operation of the laboratory. It contains important information about what is required of you, including deadlines for submission of reports and laboratory notebooks.

You will find helpful advice in the Laboratory Manual about the recommended content for both the initial report and laboratory reports in general.

In this module we raise our expectations of your report-writing skills. At the request of the 2008-09 cohort of students I have produced a document in which I have used examples of student work to illustrate the scientific, linguistic and stylistic qualities that make a good report in the Stage II Laboratory. This document and the laboratory manual define what your demonstrators expect when marking your reports.

There is also a very useful informal guide for writing lab reports, written by an experienced demonstrator on the lab.

Lab reports are marked to a rigorous marking scheme - you should study this carefully and ensure that your reports meet the necesssary criteria.

Note: some documents on this site are only accessible from machines located within the University Exeter network. It is possible to access these from off-campus machines by using the University's Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service.

Please let me know if you find any links that don't work.

If you have trouble printing pdf files directly from your browser (wrong fonts, boxes appear instead of text or equations...) try saving the pdf as a file on disk, opening it in Preview (Mac OS X) or Adobe Reader (any platform), and printing from there. This approach has been tested and works on the 3rd-floor macs.