Who needs this course?

For advanced undergraduate chemistry students which have a basic familiarity with freshman chemistry.

Course Syllabus
This course will provide students with a background in modern analytical chemistry with an emphasis on instrumentation. Applications of instrumental analytical chemistry in medicine, forensics and materials science will be presented.

Course objectives:
To reinforce chemical principles central to analytical chemistry.
To introduce instrumental techniques for chemical measurement.
To develop critical thinking for interpreting analytical data.
To select instrumentation appropriate to the measurement need.

Video Lectures
Sample - Lecture 1 (course introduction) (9:27)
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Week 1: OMG There are errors??!?
Lecture 1:Course Introduction (9:27)

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Lecture 2: Optional Review - Dimensional Analysis (7:51)

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Lecture 3: Optional Review - Solution Concentrations (17:08)

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Lecture 4A: Error - Tolerance and Significant Figures (11:43)

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Lecture 4B: Sig Fig Worked Examples (7:08)

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Lecture 5: Replicate Measurements (8:24)

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Lecture 6: Confidence Limits and Error Bars (13:41)

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Lecture 7: Combining Error (8:34)

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Lecture 8: Using Error to Make Decisions (11:40)

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Week 2: It's Elemental: Atomic Spectroscopy Pt 1
Lecture 1: Case Study Introduction: Lead in Children's Toys (13:12)

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Lecture 2: Sample Preparation (18:02)

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Lecture 3A: Atomic Structure: Basic Review (8:59)

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Lecture 3B: Atomic Spectroscopy: Introduction (12:01)

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Lecture 4: Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (14:04)

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Lecture 5: Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (7:52)

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Lecture 6: Atomic Mass Spectrometry (7:51)

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Lecture 7: Detection Limits (13:06)

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Lecture 8: Selecting a method (10:28)

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Demo: ICP-AES (or OES) in the lab

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Demo: ICP-MS in the lab

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Week 3: Be Careful: Quality control and calibration
Lecture 1: Quality Control and Assurance - Comments (6:17)

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Lecture 2: Linear Calibration (12:53)

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Lecture 3: Error in Calibration (15:03)

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Lecture 4: Worked Examples - Calibration and Error (19:04)

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Lecture 5: Internal Standards (12:15)

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Lecture 6: Method of Standard Additions (10:15)

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Lecture 7: Practice problems, no excel (14:16)

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Lecture 8: Practice problems, with excel (20:05)

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Week 4: Chromatography - Color Paper Basics
Lecture 1: Introduction to Chromatography (13:21)

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Lecture 2: Retention Time: Qualitative (14:50)

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Lecture 3: Quantitative Retention Times (11:48)

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Lecture 4: Quantitative Retention Times - Examples (6:50)

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Lecture 5: Peak Widths and Plate Height (13:23)

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Lecture 6: Peak Widths and Number of Theoretical or Equivalent Plates (9:33)

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Lecture 7: Defining the resolution between peaks (6:34)

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Lecture 8: Examples and Homework Help (13:24)

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Week 5: Gas Chromatography
Lecture 1: Peak Widths - A Deeper Understanding (15:58)

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Lecture 2: Optimizing Separations for Narrow Peak Widths (10:38)

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Lecture 3: Weird peak shapes (7:55)

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Lecture 4: GC Introduction (8:08)

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Lecture 5: GC - The injection process and gas handling (11:28)

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Lecture 6: GC - All about the columns (14:02)

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Lecture 7: GC Column Selection and Method Design (11:10)

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Lecture 8: Detectors for GC (7:30)

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Week 6: Liquid Chromatography
Lecture 1: All about CHOCOLATE - Case Study Notes (14:36)

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Lecture 2: Overview of Liquid Chromatography (6:49)

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Lecture 3: LC Instruments and pumps and solvents (9:42)

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Lecture 4: LC Column Configurations (11:48)

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Lecture 5: LC Column Chemistry (11:29)

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Lecture 6: The role of the mobile phase in LC (11:37)

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Lecture 7: Detectors for LC (12:26)

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Bonus Lecture: Simulating chromatograms, for the extra credit (5:30)

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Week 7: Spectral Insights: Optical and Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy
Lecture 1: Getting a spectrum (12:25)

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Lecture 2: Overview of absorbance (11:20)

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Lecture 3: The spectrophotomer pt.1 : windows and light (8:15)

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Lecture 4: Splitting the light pt. 2: monochromators (14:18)

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Lecture 5: Detecting the light pt. 3: detectors (9:16)

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Lecture 6: Interpreting uv-vis and infrared spectra (9:46)

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Week 8: Electrochemical Sensors
BONUS Lecture: All about case study 3 - breathalyzers (13:30)

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Lecture 1: Overview of electroanalytical sensors (11:36)

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Lecture 2A: Potentiometric sensing, part 1 (14:22)

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Lecture 2B: Ion selective electrodes, potentiometry part 2 (10:20)

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Lecture 3: Examples of ISE in use (10:52)

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Lecture 4: The glucose biosensor (11:12)

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Lecture 5: Last One! Semiconductor&Fuel Cell Sensors (14:11)

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