Daily Schedule

Instrumental Methods of Analysis

 

Date

Chapter

Topic

9/6

1

Introduction and Data domains

9/9

1

Figures of Merit

9/11

-

Sampling and Sample Pre-treatment review

9/13

5

Signal to Noise

9/16

6,8

Introduction to Atomic Spectroscopy

9/18

-

Proposal Discussion (reschedule)

9/20

7,8

Atomic absorption instrumentation (reschedule)

9/23

7,8

Atomic absorption instrumentation

9/25

8

Interferences and Sample Treatment

9/27

7,9

Atomic Emission Spectroscopy

9/30

13

Intro to Beer’s Law

10/2

1, 5-9

Exam I

10/4

7,13

UV-vis instrumentation (First lit article due)

10/7

7,13

Different types and configurations of instruments

10/9

14

Applications of UV-vis

10/11

15

Theory and application of fluorescence

10/14

7,15

Instrumentation for fluorescence(reschedule)

10/16

16

Theory of IR (IR Tutor assignment)

10/18

-

Have a nice fall break

10/21

7,16

IR Instrumentation

10/23

17

IR applications

10/25

18

Raman Spectroscopy

10/28

19

Intro to NMR

10/30

6,7,13-18

Exam II

11/1

19

Interpretation of NMR (Article II Due)

11/4

19

NMR instrumentation and application

11/6

20

Intro to Mass spec

11/8

20

Mass spec instrumentation

11/11

20

Applications of Mass spec

11/13

26

Basics of separation

11/15

26

Applications of Chromatography (Ariticle III Due)

11/18

27

Gas Chromatography

11/20

28

HPLC instrumentation

11/22

28

Types of HPLC

11/25

30

Capillary Electrophoresis

11/27

19,20,26-28,30

Review for Exam III

11/29

-

Have a nice Thanksgiving

12/2

-

Exam III

12/4

-

Work on proposal

12/6

-

Final Exam Review

12/12

 

Final Exam  1:00-3:00 PM