Instrumental Analysis Course Syllabus
Course Information
Course title
Instrumental Analysis
Course number
CHEM 3311 and CHEM 3313
Course description
This course is intended to provide basic skills in instrumental analysis. Students will learn properties of electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter, components of spectroscopicinstruments and evaluation or their features, basics of molecular and atomic spectroscopic methods, details of atomic absorption (flame and graphite furnace) and emission spectroscopy (arc, spark and plasma), UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, Luminescence methods. The other part of the course will include an introduction to chromatographic methods of analysis including liquid chromatographic theory, high performance liquid chromatography and techniques used, gas chromatography, as well as thin layer liquid chromatography .
Course date
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
Meeting day(s)
S-M-W
Instructor Information
Name
Professor MonzirAbdel-Latif
Email:
Office location:C630
Office hours
SMW 10-12, or by appointment
Phone Ext: 2636
Course Goals
This course is an introductory instrumental analysis course, but of enough rigidity to keep you working throughout the semester. The more you try and work the more you get from this course. You will see and use most of the instruments you will learn about if you register for the lab, I dorecommend it.
At the end of the course, you are assumed to becomefamiliar with the principles and components of the basic instruments in the fields of spectroscopy and chromatography.
Grades
There will be three hour exams which will sum up to50% of the course grade. The final exam will catch the other 50%. Hour exams will cover new materials that you were not tested in. The final exam will be comprehensive.
Exam Dates
Hour exams will be held on:
1st Hr Exam: Tuesday 28-2-2017Time 11-12
2nd Hr Exam: Thursday 23-3-2017Time 8:30-9:30
3rd Hr Exam: Sunday 30-4-2017Time 11-12
Additional information
Cheating is unforgivable in my courses. Any studentwho does so will get an immediate zero grade in the course. I hope you will never do it as cheating is a bad character.
Textbooks
Required reading
Principles of Instrumental Analysis, Skoog, Holler,Nieman, Sixth Ed., 2004. Other books on Instrumental methods are also valuable.
Course Requirements
Attendance
In previous years, those who did not show up regularly, in most lectures, failed the course. According to University system, failing to attend 75% of the lectures will deprive you from attending the final exam.
Prerequisites
It is mandatory to have finished satisfactorily CHEMA, CHEMB 1301 and CHEM 2310.