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Chemistry 102-Quantitative Chemical Analysis

This site has accumulated a great deal of material over the years. The html style has been kept very simple with only one use of frames and few tables. Content is everything, and there is a lot of that.

As computers became more generally available in the late 1990, and tools for data analysis like Microsoft Excel proved surprisingly sophisticated, I incorporated these methods into my classes. As you look through the site, there are tutorials on linear least squares analysis, deriviative end point methods, and multiple standard addition that still get Google hits and generate e-mail with questions from around the world. I even had a call once from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) who liked my explanation of doing non-linear curve fitting.

There is a lot of chemistry and advice on how to do good chemical analyses too. I even won an award for my Survival Guide to Analytical Chemistry. There is a partial list of lecture "slides" with frame-based navigation, but I must confess that my lecture material is organized and on PowerPoint now, and is distributed to my students on the password-protected Blackboard.

Use the link on the right to enter the site.