Laboratory Practice in Instrumental Methods

Relations:

In order to register for the course 15PINS, the student must have registered for the course 15INSN1 no later than in the same semester.

Course guarantor:

Alena Zavadilová

Lecturer:

Martin Vlk, Alena Zavadilová

Tutor:

Martin Vlk, Alena Zavadilová

Supervisor:

Department of Nuclear Chemistry

Synopsis:

Practical training of students in the use of selected modern instrumental methods and techniques for determination of required parameters

Requirements:

The course is delivered in the second half of the summer semester of the academic year. During the first half of the semester, only lectures are held, while in the second half only practical sessions take place.

To register for the practical sessions, students must also be enrolled in the course F7PMLIMB2, or must have completed it in a previous academic year. It is not possible to attend the practical sessions earlier. Admission to the practicals is conditional upon passing an entrance test (three attempts are allowed). At the beginning of the practicals, students will be asked to form groups of 45 members. Within these groups, they will complete two assigned tasks each week according to the schedule.

In case of absence, the student must arrange an alternative date with the task supervisor. Attendance at all tasks is compulsory. For objective reasons (e.g. illness), students may be excused from one practical session, which will not need to be made up; otherwise, the absence is graded as F.

Credit requirements:

Students must independently prepare reports from the tasks and submit them via Moodle within 30 days of completing the practicals, where they will be evaluated. All information regarding the practicals is available in Moodle. Reports are not returned for revision. Any report not submitted will be graded F. For credit to be awarded, no more than three reports may be graded F.

The practical course concludes with a graded oral examination, which will take place after all reports have been evaluated and after successful completion of INSN (it may be held on the same day).

The final course grade is calculated based on the results of the entrance test, the reports, and the final test.

If a student shows up unprepared, the task will be marked as an F with no chance to redo it.

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Graduates win a good scientific fundamentals and habits as well as a new knowledge on selected modern instrumental methods. They win the competence for practical use and applications of these methods in physico-chemical research and for solving some analytical problems.

Study materials:

Povinná literatura:

H. Gunzler et. al.: Handbook of Analytical Technichniques, Willey-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim 2002.

Naito A.: Experiemntal Approaches of NMR Spectroscopy. Methodology and Application to Life Science and Materials Science. Springer 2018

Y. Engelborghs, A. J.W.G. Visser (Eds.): Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Humana Press, 2014

Další doporučená literatura:

J.H. Gross: Mass Spectrometry. Springer 2017.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

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Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

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The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Jaderná chemie (compulsory course in the program)