Entry requirements

15 credits in chemistry including 5 credits from one of the courses Chemical Principles 10 credits, Basic Chemistry 10 credits, General Chemistry 10 credits or The Basic Principles of Chemistry 15 credits, as well as participation in other chemistry courses of 15 credits.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• identify and describe the steps that are included in a complete analytical method
• account for some common sampling strategies for inorganic and organic compounds
• account for and use sample preparation methods for inorganic and organic compounds
• account for and use analytical methods based on liquid and gas chromatography, electroanalysis, methods based on atomic and molecular spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy and be able to account for applications regarding sample type, component analyse and concentration range for these methods
• account for measurement quality at chemical determinations (uncertainty, quality control) and apply relevant statistical methods on chemical data
• choose and apply appropriate separation - and detection method to solve simple problems

Content

Sampling models and sample preparation for determination of both molecule - and element content in different sample types.

Analytical aspects on common methods within electroanalysis, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and separation methods.

Calibration methods. Quality aspects on chemical measurements. Statistical treatment of measurement data by means of different hypothesis testing (for example t-tests, F-tests and ANOVA) and linear regression. Methods for determination of uncertainty.

Instruction

The teaching is given in the form of lectures, laboratory sessions, seminars, computer exercises and possible study visit. Course introduction, laboratory sessions, seminars and study visit are compulsory.

Assessment

Written examination during the course and/or at the end of the course, 5 credits. For the course to be graded, it is required that the laboratory work and computer exercises have been presented and approved. Compulsory parts in the course are marked to 5 credits. The final grade corresponds to a weighed average of the results from the written examination and the laboratory work.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other regulations

This course cannot be included in a degree together with the course 1KB103 (Analytical Chemistry with Data Analysis and Chemometrics) or 1KB100 (Environmental analytical Chemistry).