| Chapter 1: |
pp. 1 - 22
- A general overview of the scope of instrumental analysis; fundamental terminology presented.
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| Appendix 1: |
pp. 967-988 (skim)
- This
section is a good presentation of some fundamental statistics. If you
are taking CHEM 201, this material will be covered (very rapidly!) in
one of the lab lectures. Although you will not be tested on this
material, I will expect you to be familiar with standard deviations,
confidence intervals and linear regression analysis. A good additional
reference on this is Brewer's Problem Solving in Analytical Chemistry.
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| Chapter 3: |
pp. 59 - 74 (skim)
- This
chapter is a nice summary of typical operational amplifier
configurations. All you need to know is what op amps are and what they
are used for (just so you're not surprised when you see one mentioned
as part of a discussion of instrumentation later on).
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| Chapter 4: |
pp. 80 - 83
pp. 83 - 108 (skim)
- You
should gain an appreciation for the differences between analog and
digital signals. Again, the goal here is to become familiar with the
terminology so that you aren't confused when it turns up later (this
material will be important when we start talking about noise and noise
reduction).
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| Chapter 5: |
pp. 110 - 123
- Your
focus here should be on understanding the methods of signal-to-noise
improvement and not on the electronic circuitry needed for these
methods.
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