The completely rewritten, revised, and peer-reviewed sixth edition of Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis provides detailed discussions of the major chemical analytical techniques, including the latest technologies and applications used in spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and chromatography. The book demonstrates how each technique relates to the others, and illustrates the benefits and limitations of each, and the specific information that individual techniques provide. Other topics addressed in the popular text include Beer's law, the Boltzmann distribution, error analysis, signal-to-noise ratios, emission and absorption of radiation, calibration techniques, and semiconductors. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.