Foreign Perspectives

With everyone having had a go at the experiments on both sides of the lab there remained a number of things that various groups hadn’t had the time to do for one reason or another. So this morning was aimed at mopping up those gaps.

After an early lunch we set off on a tour of the Millennium and Walled gardens to give us a bit of inspiration for our own experiments. That left the afternoon for us to make a start on a design of an experiment of our own. For that we bounced ideas off other people with a view to building a small team to take on an experiment based on our ideas. We ended up with 10 separate teams which seems a little too many to me and is a number which will cause a spot of scheduling difficulty with the equipment tomorrow. We’ve to hand in a research proposal for our project tomorrow which gets a once-over by the tutor before we get going (it’s part of the final assessment too).

The evening lecture was a round-up of what we’d done over the last couple of days and how we might write it up for the end of course assessment. I’d thought that we’d be writing up one of the experiments as we did last year but in fact we’ve to run up a report covering all that was done over the last couple of days. More than that actually as we’ll need to include information about the work of some of the other groups too. Quite a lot to cover in 3000 words really.

The next day and a half is basically running our own experiment with Thursday afternoon intended to be devoted on preparing a presentation on it that we’ll make on Friday morning.