Here are a series of videos and lectures providing an introduction to mass spectrometry. These are used to support a postgraduate level mass spectrometry course and have been developed as html5 flipped learning packs that are intended to prepare students for workshops.

Hopefully these materials will be of some use or interest to the wider community. If you want to use parts of these materials, please get in touch and we can work out how best to get it to you, in a useful format. I’ve added You Tube versions of the lectures at the bottom.

The recommended method for using these materials are the html5 versions in the section below – as these let students move through the materials at their own speed and the question and problem slides will work as forms.

Despite what they might like you to think, no academic is infallible! These presentations may contain a variety of inadvertent errors. If you spot one, please let me know and I’ll fix it asap.

html5 Versions

• Session 1 – Recap / Reintroduction – revising undergraduate MS concepts and terms
• Session 2 – MS features and measures – noise, resolution, isotopic distributions
• Session 3.1 – Centroids, thresholds and charge states
  • 3.1a – Centroiding in Excel
  • 3.1b – Plotting centroids in Excel
• Session 3.2 – MALDI-ToF
• Session 4 – Quads and traps 1
• Session 5 – Quads and traps 2
• Session 6 – Quads and traps 3
• Session 7 – Intro to Tandem MS
• Session 8 – Still in creation 🙂
• Session 9 – Accurate mass assignment

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Video versions of the lectures

The recommended method for using these materials are the html5 versions above – as these let students move through the materials at their own speed and the questions and problems slides will work as forms. However, I’m also uploading the videos to YouTube in case there are some who cannot access the html5 content.