 | Are You Getting Value from Your Spectrometer?
| | Spectroscopy - December 1, 2009 | Getting the best business value from a spectrometer requires knowledge of the instrument and its operating abilities, any attachments, the sample including sampling procedure and presentation, and the software. All of these elements must be pulled together by a skilled and knowledgeable spectroscopist. Unfortunately, this is not always the case in many organizations. |
|  | 2009 Editorial Index
| | Spectroscopy - December 1, 2009 | | Spectroscopy presents its annual index of authors and articles as a resource for readers and researchers. |
|  | Group Theory and Symmetry, Part I: Symmetry Elements
| | Spectroscopy - December 1, 2009 | | Group theory is the field of mathematics that includes, among other things, the treatment of symmetry. Well, it turns out that molecules have symmetry, so group theoretical principles can be applied to molecules. Because spectroscopy uses light to probe the properties of molecules, it might not be surprising that group theory has some application to spectroscopy. Here, we start a multipart discussion of symmetry and group theory. |
|  | Pressure and Vacuum: Not Really Trivial
| | Spectroscopy - November 1, 2009 | | Good vacuum system design is a crucial underpinning for high performance instrumentation. The important aspects of pressure and vacuum need regular teaching, and here Ken Busch discusses them. |
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