<p>Hello, next year i am supposed to take a general chemistry class. I did not take chemistry in high school though. what should i study to get ready? the topics being covered in the general chemistry class are: Stoichiometry, atomic theory, states of matter, electronic structure, oxidation-reduction, and thermodynamics.</p>
<p>edit: school is cleveland state by the way.</p>
<p>im more than willing to teach myself everything i need to know over this summer.</p>
<p>anyone out there?</p>
<p>Gen. chem will be a cake work compared to your overall Elec. Engineering major… But if you didn’t take high school level chemistry I would suggest you buy a cheap, good book to go over basic concepts. Or just google class notes</p>
<p>I agree with yg7s7 try to get a cheap book and look up those topics you mentioned online and do a few practice problems, but you should be fine. I know a few guys doing engineering at CSU and they have never mentioned that class as one of the hard ones</p>
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<p>I would argue with introductory general chemistry is designed to cater to people who have and have not taken it before. You probably don’t really need to do much preparation work assuming that you are reasonably bright, as most engineers are.</p>
<p>Try this: [url=<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm]Clicky[/url”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm]Clicky[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I would think for general chem you’d want to click the ‘Principles of Chemical Science’. This is some very good material, it’d be just like sitting in on a class. Hope it helps.</p>
<p>thanks guys do you think this covers everything on this site? [Chemistry</a> Study Guides - SparkNotes](<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/chemistry/]Chemistry”>Chemistry Study Guides - SparkNotes) should that be enough to prepare me for the course?</p>
<p>also im currently taking Trig in my last year of high school while i will be taking calc 1 and calc 2 next year. anything i should prepare for there?</p>
<p>I found that watching the lectures on calculus from MIT’s open courseware helped me coast through my calculus class with barely any effort. It gets really easy with physics and math if you are already somewhat familiar with the material, even if you don’t completely understand everything it definitely will make it easier no doubt.</p>
<p>hadsed, should i watch the 2008 ones or the 2005 ones. i watched the first three lectures of the 2008 one and im sort of lost. 2005 one seems a little more simple.</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters. I did the latest ones and while I found it pretty simple, a few things didn’t quite stick with me and also I had a textbook (though not the same as the ones they were using). I guess whichever one suits you better then do that, only makes sense.</p>
<p>school starts in about a month and this is the only class im sweating.</p>
<p>If you need to get started, go to google and search phrases like “general chemistry pdf lecture”, chemistry lecture pdf.</p>
<p>Another good source would be MIT OCW.</p>
<p>Do you have the textbook for your class? Reading ahead can really help.</p>
<p>i dont have it yet. my question is that if i just study that is supposed to be thought in the class, will i be able to atleast get a B</p>
<p>It isn’t good to assume that Chemistry will be easy. For me I found chemistry very difficult. On the other hand Physics 1 and 2 and the engineering courses I have taken so far have been fairly easy. It really is different for everyone. </p>
<p>Khanacademy.org is a great website to learn chemistry.</p>
<p>^^yes! this is the website im using to review. but so far ive only been watching the videos on the topics that we will be learning in class(stoichometry, atomic theory, etc). should i watch the others or is it not neccesary?</p>
<p>I think just getting familiar with the basics is good enough for before school starts…Like knowing stoichometry, how to balance chemical equations, how to use the periodic table, etc.<br>
It will make learning new stuff a lot easier.</p>
<p>^ yes.
Depending on how rigious your professor and the program is, some schools make the students learn more than what other college students do.</p>
<p>AP Chem is good but it goes a little bit in depth. As far as I did with my general chem, there are AP topics that we don’t cover. </p>
<p>If I were you, just do whatever Scorpioserpent has mentioned. My general chem can be described as follows:
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<p>The last chapter structure of molecules can be a headache because you have to remember the shape, the angles, and how to draw them. LMAO</p>
<p>Also, make sure you read what general chemistry you are taking. In our school there is “Introduction to Chemistry” which is a prerequisites to General Chemistry 1.
Intro to Chemistry which probably only covers 1-3 at a very basic level.</p>
<p>^^ this is topics being covered Stoichiometry, atomic theory, states of matter, electronic structure, oxidation-reduction, and thermodynamics.</p>
<p>Emphasize thermodynamics in your studying because it is more challenging than the other chemistry topics and you will probably have to take a full fledged thermodynamics class anyways.</p>