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THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
As you will remember, the problem is the question the experiment is designed to answer. To write this section of your report you need to ask yourself what question your experiment was designed to answer. Once you come up with a clear presentation of this question, your hypothesis will simply be the answer you expect the results of your experiment to support. Basically, the hypothesis is the predicted result of the experiment (5:101-103). What you need to do now, then, is go back to our description of the Volta pile experiment and ask yourself what question this experiment is intended to answer. Choose from one of the following possible problem statements: This experiment is designed to settle the dispute between Volta and Galvani. This experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that a pile will produce an electric current. This experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that a pile will produce a stronger current than a Voltaic cell. This experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that the power of the electric current produced by a pile will be some multiple of the number of copper and zinc pairs in the pile.
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