Spring 2013 Handouts and Lecture Notes
Below are links to pdf versions of many of the handouts and PowerPoint files we will look at in class. Click on any of the topics to open the corresponding file.
| Date Begun | Topic | Corresponding Text Chapters |
| 1/14 | Introduction to Instrumental Analysis | 1 |
| 1/16 | Electronics and Signals | 2, 3, 4 |
| 1/30 | Digital to Analog Conversion Primer | 4 |
| 1/30 | Signals and Noise | 5 |
| 2/1 | Fourier Transforms | 5 (some 7 and 20) |
| 2/6 | Mass Spectrometry | 11, 20 |
| 2/22 | General Concepts in Separations | 26 |
| 2/27 | Gas Chromatography | 27 |
| 3/8 | Liquid Chromatography | 28 |
| 3/20 | Capillary Electrophoresis | 30 |
| 3/27 | General Concepts in Spectroscopy | 6, 7… |
| 4/8 | Instrumentation for Spectroscopy in the UV-Vis | 13, 14 |
| 4/17 | UV-Vis Phenomena, UV-Vis Techniques | 13, 14 |
| 4/22 | Atomic Spectroscopy | 8, 9, 10 |
| 4/29 | IR and FTIR | 16, 17 |
| 5/3 | Luminescence | 15 |
NOTE: Many of the graphics in these handouts are from one of the two sources below:
- Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 5th ed., by Skoog, Holler and Nieman. Published in 1998 by Saunders.
- Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis, 6th ed., by Robinson, Skelly Frame and Frame. Published in 2005 by Marcel Dekker.