The following section is an excerpt from the example laboratory report, titled Proper Inflation of a Basketball. (The entire example report is available in either  Microsoft Word Format for printing, or  HTML format for online viewing.)

Table 1. Typical data describing the rebounding of the basketball. These data were taken for the case of 15 strokes having been used to inflate the ball.
 

rebound height h [m]					average  h [m]	uncertainty  [m]
trial 1	trial 2	trial 3	trial 4	trial 5
1.31	1.34	1.34	1.34	1.36	1.34	0.02

Note what's here:

• A table number. Tables are numbered by themselves (sepearate from equations and figures).
• A descriptive caption. The caption appears above the table and explains it. "Table 1" by itself is not a descriptive caption.
• Units! Always include units in the heading for any data you give in a table.

• Reams of data. Large data sets must be presented in a graph. Presenting all of the same data in a table and in a graph is redundant.