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== CHEM 6111 - Special Topics - Data Analysis and Acquisition ==
 
== CHEM 6111 - Special Topics - Data Analysis and Acquisition ==
  
This 3-credit course will be offered by Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich (with assistance from Prof. Jose L. Jimenez) in Fall of 2012. It will be a required course for 1st year analytical chemistry students, and optional for others. The course number may be special topics, depending on whether CU can approve the new course number by then.
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This 3-credit course will be offered by Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich (with assistance from Prof. Jose L. Jimenez) in Fall of 2012. It will be a required course for 1st year analytical chemistry students, and optional for others.  
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== Course Information ==
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* Lectures: Tue & Thur 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Ekeley W166
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* Office Hours: TBD
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* Required Texts
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** Taylor, ''Error Analysis'', 2nd. Ed., 1997.  ISBN: 093570275X, on reserve at Norlin
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** Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, ''Numerical Recipes''
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***[http://www.nr.com/oldverswitcher.html 2nd. Ed. free online]  You can read the version for any of the coding languages; we'll focus on the discussion, not the code.
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***[http://www.nr.com/aboutNR3electronic.html 3rd. Ed. available for purchase online] or book, 2007.  ISBN 9780521884075, on reserve at Norlin.
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** Allen and Tildesley, ''Computer Simulation of Liquids'', 1987.  ''Selections will be posted here.''
  
 
* Introduction to computer graphing, functions and programming (Igor, 2 weeks)
 
* Introduction to computer graphing, functions and programming (Igor, 2 weeks)
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** Data acquisition problems brought by students from their research
 
** Data acquisition problems brought by students from their research
  
* Potential Texts
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* Additional Texts
** Numerical Recipes (online)
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** Building Scientific Apparatus (Moore, Davis, and Coplan)
** Building Scientific Apparatus (Moore, Davis, and Coplan)  
 
** Taylor Error Analysis
 
** Stuff from Amber's stats class
 

Revision as of 16:58, 17 August 2012

CHEM 6111 - Special Topics - Data Analysis and Acquisition

This 3-credit course will be offered by Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich (with assistance from Prof. Jose L. Jimenez) in Fall of 2012. It will be a required course for 1st year analytical chemistry students, and optional for others.


Course Information

  • Lectures: Tue & Thur 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Ekeley W166
  • Office Hours: TBD
  • Required Texts
    • Taylor, Error Analysis, 2nd. Ed., 1997. ISBN: 093570275X, on reserve at Norlin
    • Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, Numerical Recipes
    • Allen and Tildesley, Computer Simulation of Liquids, 1987. Selections will be posted here.
  • Introduction to computer graphing, functions and programming (Igor, 2 weeks)
  • Basic Data Analysis (Igor, 6 weeks)
    • propagation of errors
    • Basic analysis: interpolation, area integrals, multidimensional data handling
    • Statistics: calculating statistical parameters, distributions, precision, uncertainty, ANOVAA
    • Correlation and regressions (variants)
      • centered (Pearson's) vs uncentered correlation
      • vertical vs orthogonal distance regression
      • squared vs absolute value errors for regression
      • weighted vs unweighted regression
    • boxcar and weighted smoothing
    • Signal-to-noise, noise reducing measures, signal enhancing measures, numerical high pass filters, low pass filters etc.
    • Fitting of custom functions
  • Advanced Data Analysis (Igor, 4 weeks)
    • Numerical solution of ODEs
    • convolution (student request to IMU)
    • Montecarlo simulations
    • Positive Matrix Factorization
    • Frequency analysis and FFT
  • Data Acquisition (Labview, 3 weeks)
    • Fundamentals of data acquisition
    • Data I/O, parsing of text files, write to file etc.
    • Labview: introduction and programming
    • Data acquisition problems brought by students from their research
  • Additional Texts
    • Building Scientific Apparatus (Moore, Davis, and Coplan)