Dr. Stephen Lukacs (May 2012)
Through the past century, we have been developing probes that convert any type of measurable into an electrical signal. That signal is then mangled and amplified by a circuit. Today, those amplified signals are digitized and processed by and stored in computers. Hence, the foundation of all modern instrumentation.
(May 2012) The BIG picture or perspective of why we have chemical instrumentation, its circuits, electronics, and computers.
(May 2012) The essential active probe by generating various electrical signals using a signal generator and how to detect perturbed, noisy, or mangled electrical signals using an oscilloscope.
(May 2012) The basics of operational amplifiers and how the theory around various types of signal manipulations important for instruments.
(May 2012) Acquiring data in the modern age is done digitally. However, the real world is smooth, flowing analog. So what is the technique of converting from the real-world of analog into the cyber-world of the digital computer.