Would anyone be able to help me out? I'm taking a gap year

If you're able to access the course lookup feature for the current or next semester in your student login, search for the courses you plan on taking your first semester. Get some names of the people teaching these classes and put them in Google with your school name. You can typically find their website where they post syllabus, homework problems, notes, etc.

A lot of times they post their notes in their entirety (especially for lower division lecture-hall type classes), and you can work through them without having to even buy the book.

Also, check the sticky. Lots of material there

>>8430900
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Chemistry_Textbook_Recommendations

>>8430900
>3.5
>pchem

You should kill yourself now

What I think are easy texts that you could use:
General: Brown
Analytical: Skoog
Organic: McMurry
Phychem: Ball
Inorg: Miessler
Biochem: Campbell

>>8430900
some of the topics you need to know, off the top of my head

>repeat of high school level chem, including oxidation/reduction, basic orbital assignment of electrons, chemical equilibrium and buffer reactions, ideal gas laws.
>atomic orbital theory, including hybridization of orbitals and molecular orbitals, basic quantum mechanics to understand molecular orbitals
>applied analytical chemistry: what are the working principles behind Gas Chromatography, NMR spectroscopy, Mass spectroscopy, UV/visible spectroscopy, and Infrared spectroscopy.
>basic organic chemistry which is probably the easiest, you just need to visually recognize an algorithm for solving a problem, then take an input molecule and predict the mechanism and product that comes out
>basic molecular biology (optional)
>partial differential equations and how to set up theoretical model (balance equations) for different chemical reactors. Used for process engineering.

>>8431407
Yea I've heard that... Do you think it's pretty much impossible? I'm a hard worker I'm willing to read through the books and do all the problems I wont slack.
>>8431573
Thanks! I appreciate it!
>>8431690
Thanks I saved this and I'll make sure I focus on them as I go through the literature!

>>8431573
ORGANIC

CLAYDEN

EVERY TIME

>>8431903
I've also heard Klein was good. What would you recommed?

>>8430900
Mit's video lectures on solid state chemistry are pretty good, the professor knows how to give a good lecture, you can tell he cares about the material. The lecturers name is donald sadoway

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>>8431890
Nah I got an A in my first two pchem courses and am in my third one now. To give you an idea, it's nothing like organic chemistry. I hated organic and struggled to get B's, but pchem is very quantitative and is a lot better if you have a brain for mathematical modeling/problem solving. Atkins is great btw, lots of good practice problems.

Brush up on calculus, specifically multivariate calculus/partial derivatives. Also, you should definitely familiarize yourself with Maxwell's equations and Euler's chain rule (pic related). If your professor likes to ask you to derive relationships/equations on exams, knowing these two will make it a breeze.

>>8432081
Alright thanks I will. I appreciate the advice. Congrats on the success by the way!

>>8432104
Thanks. P.chem is simple, don't let people scare you into thinking it's not. Pay attention to units too. A lot of the problem solving is easy when you understand the nature of the values you're considering. For example, the term "heat capacity." Seems abstract/vague until you notice the units are joules per Kelvin (J/K). It's the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a substance by one degree. Everything in pchem boils down (pun intended) to units. Knowing what units the answer will be in is a huge tool for setting up a problem successfully. I tutored p.chem 1, thermodynamics, and that advice helped all of my tutorees.

>>8432118
Thanks, yeah I've always heard that P chem was a killer and that orgo was like a walk in the park compared to it, thanks for the advice I found a copy of atkins online so I'll be using it. I think my main focus will probably just be brushing up on my math skills to make sure that wont be the reason why I'm having any issues and to hopefully reduce any stupid mistakes. Thanks again you've been really helpful!

>>8432139
Cheers