New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Level 6

Engineering Fundamentals

Lab Title
Student: …………………….
ID: ……………………………..

Prepared: …………………..
Due: …………………………..
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Summary

In all technical documents, the summary is used to convey the whole document into a
paragraph or two, of information.
This page is written last as the full body of text needs to be written first, then all details are
made into a concise paragraph and published on this page.

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Contents
Summary...............................................................................................................................................2
Aim........................................................................................................................................................4
Apparatus..............................................................................................................................................4
Method..................................................................................................................................................5
Results...................................................................................................................................................6
Results Analysis.....................................................................................................................................6
Conclusions............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................8

Figure 1: Equipment Setup....................................................................................................................4

Figure 2: Method of Experiment...........................................................................................................5
Figure 3: Approximate free body diagram (FBD) 3- forces....................................................................6
Figure 4: FBD 4-forces............................................................................................................................6
Figure 5: FBD 5-forces............................................................................................................................6

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Aim

Explain the aim of experiment in your own words

Apparatus

A variety of items were used to conduct the experiments, (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, 2016) the main
components were (in no particular order):

a. part 1
b. part 2
c. ……

The setup of equipment is demonstrated in Figure 1:

Figure 1: Equipment setup (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, 2016)

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Method

The experiment was conducted:

 Step 1
 Step 2
 Step 3
 Step 4
 …..

i. ii. iii.

vi. iv.
v.

vii
.

Figure 2: Method of experiment (please see references section for image sources)

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Results

The experiment had four tests. The results were gathered by groups and averaged values are
displayed in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Experimental values

Results Analysis

Insert your diagrams and sample calculations here, one page per diagram.

If you give any equation in must be cited (Unknown, 2016) (Unknown, 2016) (Unknown, 2016)
(Unknown, 2016) (Unknown, 2016) (Unkown, 2016).

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Conclusions

State any observations and answer any questions

Was the experiment successful? – Why?

State any errors, numerical values / percentages – Why?

Any sensible recommendations.

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References

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. (2016, Septemeber 05). Laboratory 1. Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New
Zealand.

Unknown. (2016, September 05). Retrieved from northpole:

http://www.northpole.com/images/craftcottage/diy-graphite-paper/IMG_8058b.jpg

Unknown. (2016, September 05). Retrieved from millersville:

http://www.millersville.edu/physics/experiments/065/COMP1.GIF

Unknown. (2016, September 05). Retrieved from Google Images: https://www.google.co.nz/url?

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Q&ust=1473114381156644

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sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjXh8Hf4fbOAh
VCjJQKHaabCXQQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boonville.k12.mo.us%2Fschools
%2Fhcp%2Ffamilymath%2FPages%2FCounting.aspx&bvm=bv.131783435,d.dGo&psig=AFQjC

Unknown. (2016, September 05). Retrieved from ebay:

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mhl3TcCKQ0MkYA-ARFzs6vg.jpg

Unknown. (2016, September 05). Speednik. Retrieved from

http://speednik.com/files/2014/03/IMG_9938.jpg

Unkown. (2016, September 05). Retrieved from pinimg:

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