The document discusses the history and science of ultraviolet light and spectrophotometry. It covers:
1. The origins of ultraviolet light being discovered beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum in 1800.
2. Beer's law from 1852 relating the absorption of light to concentration of absorbing materials and Lambert's law relating absorption to path length.
3. How spectrophotometry uses monochromatic light from sources like deuterium and tungsten halogen lamps to measure the transmittance and absorbance of samples, following the Beer-Lambert law.