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
spectroscopic instruments 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
Saturday, February 7th , 2015
Location
Section 201: L104 (8:00-9:00)
Section 101: K108 (9:00-10:00)
Meeting day(s)
S-M-W
Instructor Information
Name
Professor Monzir Abdel-Latif
Email: mlatif@iugaza.edu.ps
Office location: B321
Office hours
SMW 10-11
NT 8:30-9:30
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 do recommend it.
At the end of the course, you are assumed to become familiar with the principles and
components of the basic instruments in the fields of spectroscopy and chromatography.
Grades
There will be one (or two) hourly exams which will sum up to 30% of the course grade. Home
work assignments and/or quizzes will be given 20 points. 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
Check Announcements from College Deanery
Additional information
Cheating is unforgivable in my courses. Any student who 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 may deprive you from
attending the final exam.
Prerequisites
It is mandatory to have finished satisfactorily CHEMA, CHEMB 1301 and CHEM 2310.