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Explain how each major biophysical method converts a biological sample into a number or a record — absorbance, ellipticity, a distance, a mass, a hydrodynamic radius, a heat, a diffraction intensity, a force, or a current — and which artefacts can counterfeit that result.

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✓ Place each major spectroscopy on the electromagnetic spectrum, name the transition it measures, and explain why water constrains infrared and far-ultraviolet work.

✓ Apply the Beer–Lambert law, including its failures, and interpret absorbance at 260 nm, absorbance at 280 nm, and a circular dichroism spectrum without claiming an atomic structure.

✓ Use a Jablonski scheme to define quantum yield, quenching, and Förster resonance energy transfer, including the distance window and the orientation-factor caveat.

✓ Distinguish chemical shift, J coupling, and the nuclear Overhauser effect, separate macromolecular NMR from MRI, and state what EPR detects that NMR does not.

✓ Explain mass-to-charge, a charge-state envelope, peptide fragmentation, and why a proteomic list needs a false-discovery estimate.

✓ Choose a chromatographic, electrophoretic, or centrifugal method for a stated separation and name the quantity that actually sets the position of the band.

✓ State what dynamic light scattering, SEC-MALS, titration calorimetry, scanning calorimetry, and surface plasmon resonance each report, and the artefact that most often counterfeits the number.

✓ Compare diffraction-limited microscopy, super-resolution classes, electron and X-ray methods, single-molecule force, and patch clamp by the quantity measured and the principal artefact.

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