'Instrumental Methods of Analysis' is a course offered for the B. Tech. programs at the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Error Analysis and Sampling: Accuracy - Precision - Classification of Errors - Minimization of errors - Standard deviation - Coefficient of variance - F-test - t-test - Significant figures. Sampling - Basis of sampling, Sampling and physical state - Safety measures of sampling.
Separation Techniques: Brief out line of column, paper and thin layer chromatography - Ion exchange methods - principle and application – HPLC.
Unit 2
Gas chromatography - principle and applications – gel chromatography.
Electroanalytical techniques: Potentiometry - Potentiometric titration - determination of equivalence point - acid base, complexometric, redox and precipitation titrations - merits and demerits. Voltammetry - Cyclic voltammetry - basic principle and application - Polarography - introduction - theoretical principles - migration current - residual current - half wave potential - instrumentation - analytical applications.
Unit 3
Spectro-chemical techniques: UV-VIS spetrophotometry - principle - Beer's Law application - photometric titration - single and double beam spectrophotometer - instrumentation of IR - sample handling - IR applications - H - NMR - Instrumentation and applications - principle - instrumentation - applications of atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Thermal and Diffraction techniques: Principles and applications of DTG - DTA - DSC - X-ray - Electron Diffraction Studies - SEM, TEM.
- Willard H W, Merritt J R, “Instrumental Methods of Analysis”, 6th edition, Prentice Hall, (1986).
- Skoog Douglas A, West Donald, “Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry”, 7th edition, New York Addison, Wesley, (2001).
- “Vogel's Textbook of Quantitative Chemical Analysis”, 5th edition, ELBS, (1989).
- Kaur. H, “Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis”, Goel Publisher, (2001).
