General Feedback Thermofluids 1 Laboratory 2017-18

Tutor 1 – Dr Siegfried Yeboah

1. Some students did not show full working or how the arrived at some of the answers.
2. Sample calculation is always useful to show what you have done.
3. Some students also did not show how they carried out the uncertainty measurements
(approach used) or did not explain it properly.
4. Some students in the determination of the uncertainty in the measurement did not go to
the fundamental parameter measured to convert accordingly.
5. Some students assumed a triangular distribution for the uncertainty measurements but
did not explain why.
6. Some students did not outline clearly the uncertainty type they were using and why.
7. Some of the reports were not presented in the writing style as an academic piece of work.
8. Although most students were able to use the trapezoid rule, most did not show the step
by step process of how they calculated it.
9. Some students did not define the parameters used in the equations.
10. Others did not clearly outline the coordinates used in the trapezoid rule.
11. Some students in commenting on the plot did not relate it to the experiment or even
literature to bring meaning to the trends observed.
12. Most students did not highlight the concluding remarks as the key findings from the
experiment and the results obtained but rather provided recommendations which did not
have particular justification either from the submitted report or from supporting
references.
13. Some students referenced Wikipedia which in any academic submission is not a valid
academic reference source. It is important for students to note that relevant information
from Wikipedia can be obtained in the learning process however, the original reference
source for the Wikipedia needs to be checked and verified and used as the main reference
in the submitted report.
14. Many students failed to cite references used in text but provided a bibliography.
15. Some students did not provide a single supporting reference in their reports.
16. Some students outlined the errors within the experiment and in their calculation methods,
however some did not provide solutions to resolving these problems as outlined in the
question.
17. Some students did not present sections of their results hence lost marks accordingly. For
instance some presented half of the symmetric data and not the other half.

Tutor 2 – Dr Isaac Lun

 Though all students managed to complete the lab, the data collected by some of the
students were not symmetrical. Most of the students understood and knew that the air
density was required to find initially, as this information was not given in the lab sheet,
but some students did not know. Some students did not show specific calculation steps
but just showed the results.
 For the calculation of CD, some did not present the specific software they use to get the
answer and the relevant screenshots. For the section required to the comparison of the
CD obtained from different methods, some students did not realize they should analyze
why there existed the difference.
 In addition, the uncertainty calculation, almost half students not sure how to solve this
problem properly. About the errors finding, majority pointed out several common errors
but some did not mention how these errors could been avoided.
 For the concluding remark, some students do not know what to write for this specific
question.
 Most of them missed the reference part, however some students did provide the reference
section but did not cite the references in the relevant text.