V. Data Collection

  • Data collection. Your data is critical to your science project and to the conclusions you will draw at the end of the project. As you gather data, be careful to accurately enter all numbers, measurements, temperatures, calculations, or other data. It is best to enter all data directly in your lab notebook. If you have data logged electronically, keep a list of log dates and file names and tape or glue printed copies into your lab notebook when possible. All trial data should be listed here besides the final set of data. The format of the data could be hand-written or digital.

From the data collect in the table above, we can safely conclude that our original hypothesis was wrong, and that as the angle of the light source relative to it being at the top increases, the voltage output increases.

  • Anomalous results: There should be highlights of data that are anomalous and the experiment is repeated and corrected.

After collecting our data, we have concluded that there were no anomalous results present in our collected data.