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CONCLUSIONS
As you will remember, the conclusions section focuses on the answer the results provide to the question which the experiment was designed to investigate. It should be the longest part of your lab report. Here you explain why you got the answer that you did. What aspects of the physical or chemical structures involved in the experiment explain your results? Can the chemical structures of the molecules involved help to account for the answer the experiment gave you? What do you think would happen if you used slightly different compounds in your experiment? In this section you interpret your results (5: 164-171). Bearing these requirements for the conclusion in mind, choose one of the following as the best choice for the main idea sentence of your conclusions section for your Volta pile experiment: The experiment demonstrated that the power of the current produced by a voltaic pile was a multiple of the number of copper-zinc pairs in the pile. The experiment demonstrated that we could build as powerful a pile as we might want. The experiment demonstrated that Volta was right. Let's now take a close look at an example of a fairly substantial lab report. The experiment and the report were done by Dr. Korkmaz specifically with this tutorial in mind. You can get to the report by clicking "Next" below--then use your browser's 'back' button to return to this page. Some of the material in this report might not be familiar to you. However, it is intended to give you an idea of what a lab report should be like.
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