Chemistry 564 Instrumental Analysis
Winter 1998
Meet: MWF 11:30 am, MS-202

Class text (Required):

• D. A. Skoog, F. James Holler, and T. A. Nieman Principles of Instrumental Analysis 5th Edition, Saunders College Publishing (1998)

Reference Texts (not required):

• H. A. Strobel and W. R. Heineman Chemical Instrumentation: A Systematic Approach John Wiley (1989)
• H. V. Malmstadt, C. G. Enke, and S. R. Crouch Electronics and Instrumentation for Scientists Benjamin/Cummings (1981)
• D. C. Harris Quantitative Analysis 4th Edition W. H. Freeman (1995)

Philosophy: The purpose of this course is to survey many of the instrumental methods of chemical analysis commonly used in the analytical laboratory. The lectures will be a mixture of practical, theoretical, and instrumental topics. Reading the book is an essential component of the class. But in addition to the lectures based on the book, we should have time to go into more detail on certain topics.

Grades: Your grade will be based on three take-home examinations. All examinations are worth 100 points for a total of 300 points. Grades will be based on the percent score of the average of these examinations. The university grading system will be used to assign letter grades based on the % score. Letter grades may be curved (to the students favor only) if the class as a whole does not perform well on the examinations and if some questions are found to be too difficult.

Provisions will be made for handicapped access if required. Students should notify instructor of special needs.

Material: A schedule of class material follows. The reading is listed in parenthesis.

Electronics:

• Basic Electronics (Chapter 2)
• Operational Amplifiers (Chapter 3)
• Digital Electronics (Chapter 4)
• Signals and Noise (Chapter 5)

Spectroscopy:

• Properties of Light (Chapter 6)
• Optical Instruments (Chapter 7)
• Atomic Spectroscopy:
  • Atomic Absorption (Chapter 9)
  • Atomic Emission (Chapter 10)
  • X-Ray Spectroscopy (Chapter 12)
• Molecular Spectroscopy:
  • Ultraviolet-Visible Absorption (Chapter 13&14)
  • Molecular Luminescence (Chapter 15)
  • Infrared Absorption (Chapter 16&17)

Electrochemical Analysis:

• Basic Concepts (Chapter 22)
• Potentiometry (Chapter 23)
• Voltammetry (Chapter 25)

Chromatography:

• Basic Concepts (Chapter 26)
• Gas Chromatography (Chapter 27)
• Liquid Chromatography (Chapter 28)
• Capillary Electrophoresis (Chapter 30)

Handouts:

• Thevenin Equivalent Circuit Example
• Complex Impedance Example

Examinations from this and last years' class:

• First Take-Home Examination is due Friday, February 6 at 11:30 a.m.
• Second Take-Home Examination is due Monday, March 2, at 11:30 a.m.

Contact

Professor Stephen E. Bialkowski
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0300 USA
Office phone: (435) 797-1907 FAX: (435) 797-3390
Email: sbialkow@cc.usu.edu Office: W-101 Office Hours: M, W, F 2:30-3:30

Links

• Learn about some real operational amplifiers, digital interface, and digital logic elements using National Semiconductor's on-line semiconductor database.
• Texas Instruments also has lots of operational amplifier circuit specifications on line.
• Another manufacurer of high-quality devices is Analog Devices.
• Harris Corporation is a manufacturer of several electronic components, including operational amplifiers. They have a facility here in the Cache Valley.

• Professor Tom O'Haver's Digital Signal Processing (DSP) tutorial

• Ron Shaffer's page for DSP

• Ron Shaffer's Chemometrics web site

• Link to Prof. Charles Lochmuller's Factor Analysis tutorial and read other instrumental analysis laboratories with a chemometrics aspect.

• Umeå University analytical chemistry site. Full of educational materials. Best site around for analytical chemists.

• On-line tutorial on monochromators and spectrographs from Instruments SA.

• Visit Orion's pages to find out about ion-selective and pH electrodes.

• Several JAVA applets of interest to chemists may be run at GAMELAN. Your browser must be able to run JAVA to use these. Look to educational applets under the sub-headings of Chemistry and Physics. You will find a molecular spectrum simulator, an "on line" energy level calculator for the He atom, several molecular graphics applets, and even ab initio molecular geometry calculators. There are several interactive models for solid-state physics, applicable to semiconductor detector technology, also on line.

• To get a feel for motions in hot molecules using JAVA, see the dynamic molecule at Department of Physical Chemistry at the Darmstadt University of Technology

• To see what normal molecular vibrations correspond to infrared absorption bands see the VRML vibrator at Department of Physical Chemistry at the Darmstadt University of Technology

• A good site for spectroscopy information is through the Society for Applied Spectroscopy links page.

• Also, be sure to check out the links to photothermal spectroscopy through my home page

Selected links to analytical instrumentation manufacturers

Yahoo links to chemical analysis instrumentation manufacturers.

• Spectroscopy and Chromatography Instrumentation
• General Chemical Analysis Instruments

Some "big-name" manufacturers

• Bruker
• Hewlett Packard
• Hitachi
• Perkin Elmer
• Thermo Electron Corporation
• Varian

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