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Category Archives: Education
Video: Introduction to Mass Spectrometry
Reconstructors
The Reconstructors use mass spectrometry to save civilization.
Mass Spectrometry Exam Questions
Five mass spectrometry exam questions worked out.
Audio Periodic Table
Periodic table with audio annotations from the Royal Society of Chemistry (via).
Alpha and Beta Calutrons
Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.
How a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Works
Mickey Laux of Orange Coast College explains how a quadrupole mass spectrometer works.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Health Care
Lecture from UCTV.
QTOF Lecture
Raising the bar on scientific presentation production values.
LHC Rap
(via)
Video Archive: The Mass Spectrometer
A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.
A Conversation with Fred W. McLafferty
The Oral History Project of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has a 90 minute streaming video interview of mass spectrometry pioneer Fred McLafferty (Apple Quicktime required).
Academic Interviews
Excellent and refreshingly candid advice on academic job interviews (via).
Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses
Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson’s Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books.
Chromatography Video
Here is another video in need of a mashup.
Ion Mobility Separation Animation
A well-crafted animation of ion trapping and mobility separation. It lacks a soundtrack, but it’s easy enough to add one.
Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, Mass Spectrometers, and Cloud Chambers
A physics lecture by Prof. Walter Lewin of MIT. Launch in external player
LOL Mass Spectrometry
A mashup of Lolcat and MS journal newsfeeds (via; via)
MS Flash Simulation
Mass spectrometer Flash simulation at eduMedia.
Mass Spec Meets YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=741O4KJ95Ng