Teaching resources

Over the years, I have created a large quantity of teaching materials. You can find >30 videos on the AutoVectis youtube channel.

As well as the you tube channel, here are a collection of slidepacks and other teaching materials you may find useful. I am happy to share these, but please acknowledge their use:

You can also find a link to the free software that I use for teaching various aspects here – including the tools I used to make the videos below.

Introduction to Absorption Mode FT-MS

Resolution film

AMDIS Basics

A short video reminding students of some of the features, uses and benefits of AMDIS for processing GC-MS data.  This film is intended to support work during an Analytical Chemistry lab session.

Concentration Calculations

Calculations involving concentrations are a common source of difficulty.  I will start to put together a series of short videos explaining how to make it easier to get the right answer.

Here is the first one.

Referencing

Poor or incomplete referencing, or the choice of poor references are some common sources of lost marks in student reports or papers.  In order to try to rectify this, I am making a series of videos, trying to give students some pointers for getting it right.  This is the first two video on the series – I will post the others once they are complete.

Mendeley for referencing

Since I made my own videos, Mendeley has been updated. However, rather than making another of my own videos – you will probably find this one to be very useful:

Adding citations and making reference lists using Mendeley

Fields in a quadrupole

This animation shows how the electrical fields vary in a 2D slice through a quadrupole during the RF cycle.  This can be used to visualize how ions could be trapped in such a field.

Quadrupole fields animation from David Kilgour on Vimeo.

Time of flight animation

A simple animation showing some of the concepts in reflectron TOF MS.