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Project Goals

As much as possible we encourage students to take complete responsibility for design, construction and execution of experiments and models. We have provided some initial guidelines in the next section which will help budget time and set initial population densities and sugar concentrations. Students need to:

Like much science, this seems very straightforward in outline. In practice, the three classes which have worked through this protocol have all needed to reset at least once, often twice. For a `classic' experiment, results are remarkably unreliable. Overall we have felt that this lab prepares students very well for honest interaction between theory, experiment and understanding.


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James Powell
2000-07-31