{"nbformat":4,"nbformat_minor":0,"metadata":{"colab":{"provenance":[]},"kernelspec":{"name":"python3","display_name":"Python 3"},"language_info":{"name":"python"}},"cells":[{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["# **Project lab**"],"metadata":{"id":"YhH6aukqPlIc"}},{"cell_type":"code","source":["# Run this code cell to mount your Google Drive.\n","from google.colab import drive\n","drive.mount('/content/drive')\n","\n","#Fill in the appropriate directory info in the ``...``\n","%run \"/content/drive/My Drive/.../utilities.ipynb\""],"metadata":{"id":"AJdqi2AxPn2q"},"execution_count":null,"outputs":[]},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["## **Learning goals**\n","\n","The goal of project lab is to use the skills developed throughout the course to design and conduct your own physics experiment.\n","\n","One of the key goals of this course is for you to learn to critically evaluate an experimental design and analysis. Go for *quality* of investigation over *quantity* of data collected. **All experimentation decisions must be explicitly justified.**"],"metadata":{"id":"g6vn80J4NBxk"}},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["## **Activities**\n","\n","We are now into our projects! In lab this week, work on your project and, by the end of the session, submit lab notes in Google Colab that detail:\n","* What you did today, including how individual group members contributed (think parallel processing, rather than serial processing),\n","* Any data you collected and analyzed, including brief interpretations of the results,\n","* Your conclusions about your past two weeks of experimentation and how they fit together.\n","\n","These notes should be part of a running collection of records that effectively say what you did, why you did it, and what you’re going to do next.\n"],"metadata":{"id":"yldaUof7h_fG"}},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["**[Markdown cells as needed]**"],"metadata":{"id":"k_P2pzwOK01e"}},{"cell_type":"code","source":["#Keep a running log of analysis etc"],"metadata":{"id":"9YU2wUqAtxcY"},"execution_count":null,"outputs":[]},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":[],"metadata":{"id":"OuVRg5eXPAsO"}},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["## **Checkouts**\n","\n","By the end of the session today you should write up (and present to your TA):\n","* Your claim(s) about your experiment(s) over the past two weeks\n","* Your evidence that supports your claim(s)\n","\n","Your TA will evaluate this checkout based on: whether your evidence supports your claim (and does not support other claims), whether your evidence is sufficient to make said claim, and whether it is clear how your evidence was collected.\n"],"metadata":{"id":"65l8XQSmPBMx"}},{"cell_type":"markdown","source":["\n","# Looking ahead: presentations and final submissions\n","\n","In the third and final session, your group will prepare and present a single slide digital poster that outlines:\n","\n","* your research question and experimental process,\n","* the single most interesting part of your investigation, and\n","* one direction for others to pursue in a future investigation (such as students taking the course next semester!).\n","\n","The single most interesting part of the investigation may be about your methods, analyses, or results. It may be a surprising challenge that you came up against, whether you were successful or not. And it could even be a negative or null result that may be significant or contrary to what you expected.\n","\n","Students will take turns standing by their poster and walking around to view other students' posters.\n","\n","Each student member will be assigned to evaluate three other groups' posters, which will serve as the lab notes submission for the final lab. Your group will receive this feedback and you will have until December 18th to update your presentation, implement any suggestions, and submit to the Presentation assignment."],"metadata":{"id":"H93sW8JSwVB9"}}]}