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Your report must be easy to follow.

You may find that using headings will help to make your report clear

Title

• Your title must tell the reader what your report is about.

Aim

• Your aim must describe clearly the purpose of your investigation.

Underlying physics

• You must describe the physics relevant to your aim.
• You must use your own words as much as possible.

What else to include

You may choose to include:

• relationships or equations
• definitions of symbols used
• explanations or justifications of relationships or equations
• explanations of physical properties
• copies of diagrams which you would find difficult to draw

You can quote from sources as long as you give a description or explanation showing that you understand the physics.

Description of experiment(s)

• You must describe the physics relevant to your aim.
• You must give only a brief description of the experiment you carried out.
• If you carried out two experiments, you should give a brief description of both. You will be awarded the mark if one of the two descriptions is acceptable.
• You must show that you can summarise your experimental method(s) and must not give a full description.
• Your description must include the measuring instruments you used, although you don’t need to give details of the range of measurements or the number of repeats.

Experimental data

• You must include a table showing all of the measurements you recorded in your experiment.
• If you carried out two experiments, you should include a table of measurements from each experiment. You will be awarded the mark if one of the two tables is acceptable.
• Make sure you include column headings and units.
• You must calculate mean values for your repeated measurements. These must be included in your table.
• Any derived values needed for graphing must be included in your table.