Download Guidelines for Oral Presentations - Physical Chemistry Laboratory 1 | CHEM 1430 and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Chemistry in PDF only on Docsity! Guidelines for Chem 1430 Oral Presentations Organizing your presentation • Your presentation should be 12 minutes long. If you aim for 10 minutes, you will meet the time requirement. Plan to spend between thirty seconds and two minutes on each slide. We have PowerPoint 2003 in the lab and the data projector is set at a resolution of 1024 x 768. Please keep this in mind as you format your slides. You can use your own laptop computer or load your presentation onto the computer in the lab using a USB data key. A copy of the oral presentation score sheet can be found on the website under the schedule link. • You will have the opportunity to earn up to 50 points for your audience participation grade. This will be based on your attentiveness and the number and quality of questions you ask. Since you should have a fairly good knowledge of each experiment, you can think about what questions to ask even before presentation day. In doing so, it will insure that you obtain the maximum points possible for participation. • While the TAs may ask questions, the focus is on student interaction and discussion and not a presentation to the teachers. When you make your presentation, think about how you would convey the information to other students in an understandable way, starting from basics and progressing to the more complex details and concepts of the experiment. You might also want to consider adding a part to your presentation about what you would do to improve your results and the experiment/lab. Don’t worry; you will not offend anyone with suggested improvements. In fact, your suggestions may very well end up being incorporated into the lab for future semesters. • The information you present should be similar to the material contained in a long lab report. Your presentation should demonstrate your understanding of the experimental technique, as well as an ability to think outside the confines of the lab manual and apply the technique to other problems. A sample outline is as follows: Introduction – A brief history of the experimental technique and some of its applications Theory – The mathematical expressions (be sure to define all your variables!) and instrumentation used in your experiment Results – Your spectral data, as well as any relevant fits and analysis. How do your results compare to the available literature? Conclusions – Show that you have thoughtfully evaluated your work and the experimental technique itself. Did this experimental technique work well for your purposes? What other problems or chemical phenomena can be studied using this experimental technique? What can be done to improve the lab?
