Parts of A Lab Report – Experiment
I.Title
An interesting title could be worded as a cause and
effect or
A what if type
The Effect of Spinner Rims on Gas Mileage
(cause) (effect)
II.
Problem
The problem tells why you are doing the experiment,
what do you want
to prove,
what do you need
to learn
Will spinner rims cause it to be more expensive to use a car
III.
Hypothesis
You propose a possible solution to your problem
An educated guess,
best written as a
question
Will spinner rims
use more miles per gallon of gasoline?
Best done in question form, as above
Spinner rims will
cause the car to use more miles per gallon.
As worded in
statement form.
IV.
Materials Chart
Be specific tell all of the supplies that
you used in detail
|
Supplies |
Equipment |
|
Gasoline 100 gallons unleaded, regular, Mobil |
Car Cutlass, 1969, Type,year,model |
|
|
Spinner rims Type,
year, model |
Car
Spinner rims
Gasoline
V.
Method
(procedure)
Tell anybody in the world how to do your experiment
How should we do the experiment in clear easy to
understand details
- record beginning mileage of car
- keep a daily journal of weather, traffic conditions, type of driving (highway, city), special situations.
- fill car with a full tank of gasoline
- record mileage driven each day, week
- drive back and forth to work over the course of 4 weeks
- record end mileage
- record total amount of gas used
- put on spinner rims
- fill car with a full tank of gasoline
- record mileage driven each day, week
- drive back and forth to work over the course of 4 weeks
- record end mileage
- record total amount of gas used
VI. Observations
Gas, mileage,
times, distances,
any
information
that is noted during the experiment
VII.
Analysis
Must be done as data chart and graph
Data
Chart
|
regular rims |
week |
Starting miles |
Ending miles |
Miles driven |
Gasoline used |
Mileage this wk |
|
|
1 |
|
|
100 |
10 |
10 miles/gallon |
|
|
2 |
|
|
100 |
10 |
10 miles/gallon |
|
|
3 |
|
|
100 |
10 |
10 miles/gallon |
|
|
4 |
|
|
100 |
10 |
10 miles/gallon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spinner rims |
1 |
|
|
100 |
15 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
100 |
15 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
100 |
15 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
100 |
15 |
|
Graph
Gas used
Gas Consumption Depending on Rim Type
All Graphs must be done on graph paper
Every graph must have a title
Every graph must have a key
VIII. Conclusion
A statement that
answers the question posed by your problem and/ or hypothesis.
Should state whether your hypothesis was correct or
incorrect and why.
As noted
by the evidence the data shows the hypothesis to be correct.
Spinner rims have caused the car to use more gas .