Dear BCM 230:

ABOUT THE LECTURE PORTION OF THE CLASS:

1) My office hours will be Thursday 3-4 PM (note CHANGE, the office hour is one hour later than originally posted), plus by appointment. My office is in a small modular building (trailer) in parking lot 52, immediately south of the NMR labs in Building MS1-D. There is a link to a map on the course webpage:

http://www.nmr.ucdavis.edu/BCM230_Fall2007/bcm230.html

2) Please feel free to ask questions on lecture or lab material via email. For an appointment outside of regular office hours please email or phone me (752-7677).

3) Next Friday we will cover pages 15-27 of the Notes; please read this material before the next class meeting. By the end of lecture #2 we will have developed our vector model of the NMR experiment that we will use for the duration of the course. In lectures 1-3 we cover all the basics of NMR that we need; in the succeeding lectures we cover a host of more advanced topics using the vector formalization of the NMR experiment to guide our understanding. Specific topics week-by-week are given on the course topic list, available on the course web site.

ABOUT THE LAB:

1) In the first three weeks of lab we will cover all the basics of spectrometer operation. Then in week #4 we will learn nuclear relaxation measurements. In week #5 the 7T group will move on to imaging experiments for the duration of the course; the 400/500/600 lab groups for the duration of the course will cover a variety of advanced one-dimensional and two-dimensional NMR experiments. Specific details of the topics covered week-by-week are available on the course web site by following the appropriate links.

2) For those taking the lab, there will be an optional check-out lab exam at the end of the quarter. You don't have to take the exam, but if you want to be approved for independent operation of the NMR instruments for your research you must successfully pass the exam.