Quantitative Analysis is also a prerequisite for this course. This course will integrate the technological advances within the area and their impact in the formulation of chemical principles and their applications. Furthermore, the laboratory component of the course will help to illustrate and apply some of these technological advances. The major foci are on the principles and capabilities of selected analytical instruments rather than their design and construction. The necessary theoretical background for theintelligent use of the instruments is given.
Emphasis is on the operating parameters associated with each of the instruments studied.
Operational details are covered sufficiently to give students an adequate understanding of the techniques used without being overwhelmed by details. Students will prepare their own samples for analysis, operate the instrument, collect the data and interpret it, and report the results in an appropriate format. Students are required to solve a variety of practical problems by algebraic and graphical means. The scope of the course is limited to those instruments and techniques that find the widest use in the laboratories of chemical companies, hospitals, and governmental regulatory agencies. Samples selected for analysis by students will include a variety of consumer products and industrial materials of natural and synthetic origin.