Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electrical components and circuits -- Operational amplifiers in chemical instrumentation -- Digital electronics and microcomputers -- Signals and noise -- An introduction to spectrometric methods -- Components of optical instruments -- An introduction to optical atomic spectrometry -- Atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence spectrometry -- Atomic emission spectrometry -- Atomic mass spectrometry -- Atomic x-ray spectrometry -- An introduction to ultraviolet/visible molecular absorption spectrometry -- Molecular luminescence spectrometry -- An introduction to infrared spectrometry -- Applications of infrared spectrometry -- Raman spectrometry -- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry -- Molecular mass spectrometry -- Surface characterization by spectroscopy and microscopy -- Introduction to electroanalytical chemistry -- Potentiometry -- Coulometry -- Voltammetry -- An introduction to chromatographic separations -- Gas chromatography -- High-performance liquid chromatography -- Supercritical fluid chromatography and extraction -- Capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrochromatography -- Thermal methods -- Radiochemical methods -- Automated methods of analysis. Aims to help students develop an understanding for the tools used for gathering qualitative and quantitative information about the composition and structure of matter and how these tools are used to solve analytical problems.