Lab 6 Saliva Practical BeerLambert Law University of
Lab 6: Saliva Practical Beer-Lambert Law University of Lincoln presentation This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
This session…. • Overview of the practical… • Statistical analysis…. • Take a look at an example control chart… This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
The Practical • Determine thiocyanate (SCN-) in a sample of your saliva using a colourimetric method of analysis • Calibration curve to determine the [SCN-] of the unknowns • This was ALL completed in the practical class • Some of your absorbance values may have been higher than the absorbance values of your top standards… is this a problem? ? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Types of data QUALITATIVE Non numerical i. e what is present? QUANTITATIVE Numerical: i. e. How much is present? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Beer-Lambert Law Beers Law states that absorbance is proportional to concentration over a certain concentration range A = cl A = absorbance = molar extinction coefficient (M-1 cm-1 or mol-1 L cm-1) c = concentration (M or mol L-1) l = path length (cm) (width of cuvette) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Beer-Lambert Law • Beer’s law is valid at low concentrations, but breaks down at higher concentrations • For linearity, A < 1 1 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Beer-Lambert Law • If your unknown has a higher concentration than your highest standard, you have to ASSUME that linearity still holds (NOT GOOD for quantitative analysis) 1 • Unknowns should ideally fall within the standard range This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Quantitative Analysis • A<1 – If A > 1: • Dilute the sample • Use a narrower cuvette – (cuvettes are usually 1 mm, 1 cm or 10 cm) • Plot the data (A v C) to produce a calibration ‘curve’ • Obtain equation of straight line (y=mx) from line of ‘best fit’ • Use equation to calculate the concentration of the unknown(s) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Quantitative Analysis This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Statistical Analysis This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Mean The mean provides us with a typical value which is representative of a distribution This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Normal Distribution This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Mean and Standard Deviation MEAN This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Standard Deviation • Measures the variation of the samples: – Population std ( ) – Sample std (s) • = √( (xi–µ)2/n) • s =√( (xi–µ)2/(n-1)) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
or s? In forensic analysis, the rule of thumb is: If n > 15 use If n < 15 use s This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Absolute Error and Error % • Absolute Error Experimental value – True Value • Error % This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Confidence limits 1 = 68% 2 = 95% 2. 5 = 98% 3 = 99. 7% This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Control Data • Work out the mean and standard deviation of the control data – Use only 1 value per group • Which std is it? or s? • This will tell us how precise your work is in the lab This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Control Data • Calculate the Absolute Error and the Error % – True value of [SCN–] in the control = 2. 0 x 10– 3 M • This will tell us how accurately you work, and hence how good your calibration is!!! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Control Data Plot a Control Chart for the control data 2. 5 2 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Significance • Divide the data into six groups: – Smokers – Non-smokers – Male – Female – Meat-eaters – Rabbits • Work out the mean and std for each group ( or s? ) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Significance • Plot the values on a bar chart • Add error bars (y-axis) – at the 95% confidence limit – 2. 0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Significance This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Identifying Significance • In the most simplistic terms: – If there is no overlap of error bars between two groups, you can be fairly sure the difference in means is significant This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
Acknowledgements • • JISC HEA Centre for Educational Research and Development School of natural and applied sciences School of Journalism Siren. FM http: //tango. freedesktop. org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales License
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