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I did my Physics undergraduate at Durham, and was given this checklist as a first year. It is so surreal seeing it again on HN.

I really enjoyed having a lab-book to organise all my notes through my degree. It took time to write notes our properly, but it quickly paid off when having to check calculations, assumptions and writing up experiements.

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That's awesome, love HN has relevant people around.

Could you shed some light on what the 'script' is in 'The lab book is NOT a copy of the experimental script'? Seems to reference homework like tasks 'Task 1: 100 ± 1 kΩ' but in a more undefined experimental context what would that be...?

Maybe "worksheet" is a reasonable equivalent. Describes the the needed context (e.g. what's the goal, what are the principles involved), the experiment itself (setup, steps to do, what to measure, ...), ... for a predefined experiment, especially in a classroom setting.

In the lab notebook you need the details what you did and what you calculated, but don't need to copy all the context for the theory etc.

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