New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Level 6
Engineering Fundamentals
Lab Title
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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.
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