This stand-alone application, available for Mac OS and Windows (3.1, 95, and NT), is designed to be used in a classroom setting by an instructor, both in-class lectures and the brief lectures that precede a laboratory session. In order to provide maximum flexibility in its use at different levels of complexity, it is characterized by a minimum of words, and by a structure that allows the contents of the module to be used in a variety of orders.
The main starting point is a schematic of a mass spectrometer instrument from which any section can be directly accessed by clicking on the visual representation of the section in the instrument or by accessing the menu bar. Clicking on the image below will take you to a clickable image of a screen capture of the main screen. Note that most windows that the image will link you to has some explanation below the image.
The following menus are available: