Tutorial
A brief discussion of light, the electromagnetic spectrum and the separation of light radiation into its constituent wavelengths.
A section about how the wavelengths in the visible region combine to give white light and why the human eye sees light and colour.
Why UV-visible radiation is used.
What happens at the molecular level when UV-vis radiation is absorbed.
How absorption is quantified.
The Beer-Lambert law.
The UV-visible spectrometer.
Summary of UV-vis spectroscopy.
Quiz.
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