I had a HPLC chromatogram result with peak height = 9.3 centimetre
Retention time = 14.20 mins.
Width at baseline of peak = 7.4 centimetre
According to my chem book reference the formula: 16 x (T/W) quantity squared = theoretical plates. Yet the result I get is 58.98. This value seems very low as the book shows examples where the N,plates equals 5,000 to 9,000 values. Yet, I only get 59. Evidently, I must've made a wrong math turn somewhere? But I subbed the values in properly to my best knowledge.