“…For H 13 COOH in the C-O stretching band, these are very accurately known. 19 After establishing suitable parameters for collecting the spectrum (scan range, scan speed, data acquisition rate, lock-in sensitivity…), students begin scanning and acquiring data. While we have LabVIEW programs that fully automate the scanning, it more engaging to manually control the coarse stepping of the laser (while a separate program applies a triangle wave to the piezo element for the fine scanning).…”