[High-School Physics] Finding Relevant Journal Articles for Lab Report
Our instructor went to a teachers conference where they said to better prepare students for university they should be including journal articles as research in labs. In our latest lab out line he added: "Using APA format cite at least one journal article dealing with [heat, the subject of the lab]"
I have tried searching for journal articles on google scholar and the biggest problem I am having is finding articles with useful information that would pertain to my report. As well often the level of comprehension is often beyond my understanding.
The lab is measuring the specific heat capacity of an unknown metal sample by the way.
Posted Nov 27, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC
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for low-level stuff, I recommend educational journals- something like Journal of Chemical Education, which isn't so much a research heavy journal as it is explanations
If you can request access through your high-school or find someway to get the journal, lots of labs will be in there.
A quick preliminary search yields this article which was published two months ago
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500466m
and other articles such as this one written in 1994 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed071p793