Chem 420 at California State University East Bay - Instrumental Analysis: This is an upper-division course that focuses on The uses of instrumentation in making measurements of interest to chemists and biochemists. The course will include decriptions of scientific instruments, and concerns that arise in data collection and analysis. While learning specific instruments has limited transferable value, this course will focus on those topics that do - such as how to "kick the tires" (no actual tires will be kicked for safety reasons!) of software and interfacing instrumentation with computers. We will also focus on the generic descriptions of common sources and detectors for various types of measurements.