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Introduction:For the lasteleven weeks you have beendoingotherpeople’s experiments. Now, inthese final three weeks of lab you will be designing,conducting, and documenting your ownexperiment. In this final laboratory project, youand your lab partner will pick a scientific myth,urban legend, or any old scientific curiosity youmay have and create an experiment that attemptsto test it. Preferably this question will deal withthe content you learned this semester, but I willbeopen to other questions as long as they are strongand well-thought out. The framework that youwill be using to explore your question will be thescientific method.1.Ask a Question(Ex. Can you really create an electromagnetby wrapping turnsof wire around a metal core? Will it be strong enoughto pick up objects?)2.Hypothesis(Ex. The more turns of wire, the strongerthe magnetic field)3.Experiment(Ex. Adjusting the number of turns in theelectromagnet and seeinghow many paperclips the magnet will pick up.)4.Analysis(Ex. Creating tables and graphs that visuallyrepresent the relationshipbetween turns of wire and strength of the magneticfield).5.Conclusion(Ex. Yes, there is a direct relationshipbetween the number of turnsin an electromagnet and the strength of the magneticfield it creates: MythConfirmed!)Purpose:One of the most crucial skills for any scientist,physician, or engineer is to design anexperiment that explores a scientific question. Scientistshave to do it when they are trying tounderstand some phenomenon like, say, the behaviorof cephalopod. Physicians need to do it whenthey are trying to rule out possible diseases duringthe diagnostic process. Engineers need to do itwhen they are trying to make sure a certain physicalsystem is safe. And yet students generallyhave very little experience designing their own experimentswhen they get to graduate school. Thegoal here with this project is to have you a basicunderstanding of how to design a rigorous
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