Mass Spectrometry Exam Questions?

Bazinga_N

I was just wondering if anyone knows whether or not there are any past questions on Mass Spectrometry? I've looked through some papers and checked StudyClix for past questions but couldn't seem to find any! Does anyone have any ideas?

chatterboxxx95

Bazinga_N wrote: »

I was just wondering if anyone knows whether or not there are any past questions on Mass Spectrometry? I've looked through some papers and checked StudyClix for past questions but couldn't seem to find any! Does anyone have any ideas?

There's not many, our chem teacher is amazing and has given us all relevant exam questions since the 80's and there's not many there! The ones they are in are fairly straight forward like the principle of the mass spec or the processes

AtomicKoala

chatterboxxx95 wrote: »

There's not many, our chem teacher is amazing and has given us all relevant exam questions since the 80's and there's not many there! The ones they are in are fairly straight forward like the principle of the mass spec or the processes

The 80s? We don't even look at the 2001 paper as the syllabus was changed somewhat.

The mass spectrometry questions I recall are: What are the processes of it, and what's the principle on which it is based.

chatterboxxx95

AtomicKoala wrote: »

The 80s? We don't even look at the 2001 paper as the syllabus was changed somewhat.

The mass spectrometry questions I recall are: What are the processes of it, and what's the principle on which it is based.

Yup, our teacher just gives us the exam questions that came up on each topic with that particular topic no matter how old some of them are so there might only be a part a or a part b of a question here and there While the new course came in in 2002 and things have changed , some things on the syllabus are the exact same so she just takes away the parts not relevant to us sounds mad but it's actually good because they've actually started repeating questions from that far back, whether intentional or unintentional :pac:

AtomicKoala

chatterboxxx95 wrote: »

Yup, our teacher just gives us the exam questions that came up on each topic with that particular topic no matter how old some of them are so there might only be a part a or a part b of a question here and there While the new course came in in 2002 and things have changed , some things on the syllabus are the exact same so she just takes away the parts not relevant to us sounds mad but it's actually good because they've actually started repeating questions from that far back, whether intentional or unintentional :pac:

No I think that's a great idea! People think I'm nuts for looking at the 2001 paper

EDIT: Is there anywhere one could acquire old papers? Googling has gotten me nowhere, examinations.ie only has to 1996 and is missing 1999.

robman60

What do you guys write as the principle on which the mass spectrometer is based? I know what it does but don't really get what they want for that.

chatterboxxx95

I don't actually know where you'd get the old papers! I'd send some of them on to you only I have no scanner sorry

Priciple of mass spectrometer: ionisation of the substance takes place and it moves in a magnetic field where it experiences a force and is deflected according to its mass

AtomicKoala

chatterboxxx95 wrote: »

I don't actually know where you'd get the old papers! I'd send some of them on to you only I have no scanner sorry

Ah well that you'd even consider doing so is very good of you, don't fret. It's the experiments I need to look over at this stage, not papers.

Peter Flynt

Relative Atomic Mass Calculations:
2009 Q10 (c)
2006 Q10 (a)

Processes which occur in a Mass Spectrometer:
2002 Q7 (c)

Applications of a Mass Spectrometer:
2002 Q7 (a)

Principle on which a MS is based:
2009 Q10 (c)
2006 Q10 (a)
2003 Q4 (d)
2002 Q7 (b)

yoyojc

Well all I'm learning is the stages

Vaporisation, Ionisation... etc.

The principle: that charged particles etc...

What it's used for... detecting the presence of an isotope, getting the relative atomic mass of an isotope etc..

And just know how to do the calculatious but they're grand