There are no make-up exams except for University sanctioned events, in which case please see me a week in advance for an alternative testing time. In the event of an unexpected emergency, then -

Midterms: Family-related emergencies or deaths must be communicated through the Office of Student Affairs (838-8221) and broadcast to all your professors. Illnesses must be accompanied by a note from your doctor. Under these conditions there are two options for replacing the midterm score:

(1) If the exam hasn't been handed back to the class yet, then arrange a make-up time with me.

(2) If the exam has already been returned to the class, then I will replace the missing hour exam score by taking 30% of the percentage you receive on the final exam (since it is a 150 pt exam) and 70% of the other midterm score. This option can obviously only be used once.

Final exam: University policy states that the final exam time will not be moved. Please do not ask to take the final early because you want to leave for vacation early! There are exceptions such as starting a new job, etc. See me if there's a problem. Again, if you miss the final and follow the same procedure listed above under midterms, then I will give you an incomplete and you can take the final in a future class section to make it up (see Incompletes section below).

Grading will be no harder than A=90%, B=80%, C=70%, D=60%, F < 60%
Typically there is some curving depending on the circumstances (e.g. C >65%)

It is your right to request special accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. For questions, call the Office for Disability Services at (503) 838-8250 V/TTY, or email them at ods@wou.edu.

The Code of Student Responsibility defines cheating as "intentional use, or attempted use of artifice, deception, fraud, and/or misrepresentation of one's academic work". For this class, which involves taking exams, quizzes, and perform labs, cheating is usually but not limited to talking or writing to other students, using crib sheets (prepared notes), or looking at another student's paper. The penalty for cheating will be a zero grade for the test or quiz or assignment in question.

Students have the right to appeal this action as described in the Code of Student Responsibility

Reading (Skoog):
Ch 2: p. 22-26, 30-32, 35-36, 38-41
Ch 3: p. 56-57, 58, 64-66
Ch 4: p. 74-76, p. 80-82, p. 83-88

Reading (Gates & Becker):
Ch 1: p. 6-10
Ch 2: p. 11-17
Ch 3: p. 27-43

Problems (Skoog):
Ch 2: 1(a)(b), 16(a)
Ch 3: 1(a)(d)(e), 11
Ch 4: 1-3

More Problems (Skoog):
Ch 4: 4, 5, 6, 7

Basic Electronics, Operational Amplifier Circuits, Digital to Analog Converters, Analog to Digital Converters

LAB #1:
Analog Electronics

Reading (Skoog):
Ch 5: p. 99-113
Ch 13: p. 306-310

Reading (Gates & Becker):
Ch 4: p. 49-85

References:
"Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures", Anal. Chem., Vol. 36, No. 8, p. 1627-1639

"Comments on Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures", Anal. Chem., Vol. 44, No. 11, p. 1906-1909

"Frequency Response Plots for Savitzky-Golay Filter Functions", Anal. Chem., Vol. 49, No. 2, p. 351-352

"The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing"
by Steven W. Smith, Ph.D. - free online version

Problems (Skoog):
Ch 5: 6, 8, 9

More Problems (Skoog):
Ch 5: 2ac, 4, 7, 10

Mon Jan 15 - Martin Luther King Day
Noise and Software Filtering
Effect of Noise on Spectrophotometric Analyses

LAB #2:
A/D & D/A
Converters

Reading:
"Fourier Transforms for Chemists, Part III", Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 64, No. 12, p. A308-A313

LAB #3:
Noise Reduction

Reading:
"Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy", Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 63, No. 1, p. A5-A10

Problems:

• Fourier Transforms and Convolution problems
• Answer key

LAB #4:
LabView: Programming
A/D Boards

Serial Interfacing - RS-232
Correlation Techniques - applications to Lock-in Amplifiers and Boxcar Integrators
Fri Feb 9 - EXAM #1

LAB #5:
LabView:
Using RS-232 to interface the Hitachi U2000 UV-Vis Spectrometer

Reading (Skoog):
Ch 7: p. 147-154

Additional Reading:
"The Laser Guidebook", Jeff Hecht, McGraw-Hill, 1986, Ch 7, 8, 20

Reading (J Chem Ed):
"Diode Lasers", Baumann et al, J of Chem Educ, Vol 69, No 2, p. 89-95, 1992

Web Resources :

• Olympus Microscopy Resource Center
• Molecular Expressions Optical Microscopy Primer
• Melles Griot Laser Tutorials

Lasers

LAB #7:
Digital Electronics
LabView:
Digital I/O

Reading (Gates & Becker):
Ch 6: p. 98-113

Additional reading:
"Learning With LabVIEW 7 Express", Robert H. Bishop, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2004, Ch 10

LAB #8:
LabView:
Using a GPIB board to interface with the Hitachi HPLC

Reading (J Chem Ed):

"Freezing Atoms in Motion...", J. Spencer Baskin and Ahmed Zewail, J of Chem Educ, Vol 78, No 6, p. 737-751, 2001

"The Poisson Distribution and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy", Elizabeth J. Harbron and Paul F. Barbara, J of Chem Educ, Vol 79, No 2, p. 211-213, 2002

Web Resources :

• Andor Technology: Single Molecule Detection Primer
• CCD Primer
• Princeton Instruments Detector Fundamentals Reference Library

• Laser Fluorescence and Deconvolution
• Femtochemistry

• Molecular Expressions Fluorescence Microscopy Primer

Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy

Poisson Statistics:
Lab experiment by Dr. James E. Parks, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

catch-up