Analytical
Chemistry
- General
Chemistry
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Draw
plots of the concentration fractions of polyprotic acids species as
functions of pH. |
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Draw
plots of the concentration fractions of successive
complexes ML, ML2, .... MLn as a function of
log[L]. |
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Draw
the titration curves expected for titrations of a number of real acids
and bases at any combination between each other and at any concentration
level. |
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Periodic
table of elements and correlation plots of their properties |
Inspect
the numerical values of a number of properties of the chemical elements
and create correlation plots between any two of these properties. [2000/07] |
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Instrumental
Chemical Analysis
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Deviations
from Beer's Law: Effect of polychromatic radiation |
Observe
the effect of the selected wavelength and of the bandwidth of the
incident radiation beam on the absorbance vs. concentration plot. |
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Insert
the empirical formula of an ionic fragment and obtain the relative
intensities of its isotope peaks. Ībserve the lines corresponding to
this fragment, as they would appeared in a mass spectrum. |
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Simulated
separation of a mixture of two substances by counter-current extraction
using a Craig apparatus. |
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Simulation
of the separation of a mixture of 5 substances across a chromatographic
column and of the recorded chromatogram. |
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Observe
the consumption and the production of particles participating in a
reversible electrode reaction, their corresponding concentration
profiles and the effect of the potential of the working electrode. |
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Instrumentation
- Signal Processing
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Analog
electronics: Basic circuits of operational amplifiers |
Examine
the operation of the following circuits of operational amplifiers:
inverting amplifier, summing amplifier, difference amplifier,
differentiator, and integrator. |
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Examine
the 'truth
tables'
of digitals gates and the propagation of logical states through some
simple circuits combining various gates. [2001/04] |
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Improve
the signal-to-noise ratio of various signals by the moving average,
Savitzky-Golay and ensemble average techniques. |
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Observe
the gradual formation of some periodic non-sinusoidal waveforms by
successive point-to-point additions of sinusoidal functions. |
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Obtain
the frequency spectrum H(f) of a signal h(t) using a Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT), and observe the effect of clipping of certain frequency
bands on the original signal |
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Data
Analysis - Chemometrics
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Observe
the outcome of this statistical test for various pairs of data sets,
which you can easily define. |
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| Dixon's Q-test for the detection of a single outlier | Define sets of values of replicate measurements and examine if one of them in each set can be rejected as an outlier or not. [2006/05] |
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A
demonstration of the m-degree (m equal or less than 12) polynomial
least-squares regression on data sets defined by the user. |
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Try
a non-parametric regression method (Theil's Incomplete Method) to fit a
straight line to data points and compare the results with those obtained
with the least-squares regression method. |
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Observe
how Simplex algorithm is searching for the global minimum through a
2-dimensional parameter space. |
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| Central limit theorem | Observe how the population of the mean values of N measurements, obtained from populations of any distribution, gradually tends to be normally distributed as the number N (sample size) increases. [2005/11] |
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An
introductory example on Monte Carlo simulations: Calculation of
probabilities of the arrival of a "drunken sailor" to each one
of a town exits. [2000/04] |
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