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Nuclear Magnetic Resonsnce

This lab opens for the student the wide and diverse world of NMR, a physical phenomenon in essence, that derives its complexity from the microscopic chemical environment in which it takes place. NMR is a multi disciplinary as well as inter disciplinary field. It is utilized in various research areas such as: structural chemical analysis, chemical dynamics, microbiology and the study of the properties of solid materials. It is also the basis for a novel medical imaging technique- MRI.
This lab is focused on the crucial role of the instrumentation in NMR: the digital nature of signal sampling, the computerized signal processing, the homogeneity of the magnetic field etc. 

Organic chemists, for whom NMR is a daily tool for structural analysis, will be surprised to find out the abundance of different phenomena that can be generated in the NMR spectrum by changing the experimental parameters of the spectrometer or by altering the signal processing functions. 

Topics met by the student in this lab will be later encountered in various fields of science and technology (including some that may seem unrelated at a first glance): from digital image processing to optical spectroscopy; from the mechanical motion of a spinning top to the electronics of radio receivers and more....