What textbooks or review material would you recommend to study with for a major in Chemistry?

Answer 1

For those who are preparing for similar exams elsewhere...

The books and other materials I used for my education are listed below:

Principles of Chemistry: A Molecular Approach - General Chemistry (Tro)

Overall, I believe there are a ton of practice problems in it. (If my memory serves me correctly, there were over a hundred problems in the back of several of the chapters!)

Molecular Biology - Molecular Biology (Bruice)

I truly enjoy this book's practice problems, and the mechanisms are usually pretty obvious.

Physical Chemistry - McGarrie, Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Perspective

My main complaint with this is that it references previous chapters and past significant problems (like example 2-4!), so I suggest getting the physical copy to make it easier to flip back and forth. The "Viva Student Edition" is missing several chapters, so do not get that one.

Holler, Skoog, and Crouch, Analytical Chemistry - Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 6th ed.

Though analytical chemistry was never really my thing, my professor had a field day creating worksheets based off of the book since he lost his voice for a few weeks. Do NOT get the international edition unless you don't mind a few missing figures.

Biochemistry - Voet, Voet, and Pratt, Principles of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level

Perhaps a little dense in terms of paragraph spacing, but it seemed obvious to me.

Symmetry-Groups.pdf (https://tutor.hix.ai) - Group Theory

I've decided to share some notes from my professor on this topic because it's a beast of its own and something that will undoubtedly come up.

https://tutor.hix.ai is the ACS final review packet for Physical Chemistry 2.

The official ACS review packet for Physical Chemistry 2. My professor scanned this for me a few days before the exam---that helped me get an 85% on it! (which bumped my grade in the class to an #A^(-)#!)

https://tutor.hix.ai is the review sheet for Physical Chemistry I.

I put together this review in preparation for my Physical Chemistry 2 final.

https://tutor.hix.ai Miessler et al., Inorganic Chemistry

Easily my best chemistry textbook to date; it's contemporary, easy to understand, and well-written.

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Answer 2

The following textbooks and study guides are suggested for Chemistry: 1. "Chemistry: The Central Science" by Brown, LeMay, Bursten, and Murphy; 2. "Organic Chemistry" by Paula Yurkanis Bruice; 3. "Physical Chemistry" by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula; 4. "Inorganic Chemistry" by Catherine Housecroft and Alan G. Sharpe; 5. "General Chemistry" by Darrell D. Ebbing and Steven D. Gammon; 6. "Chemical Principles" by Peter Atkins and Loretta Jones; 7. "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language" by David R. Klein; 8. "Principles of Instrumental Analysis" by Douglas A. Skoog, F. James Holler, and Stanley R. Crouch; 9. "Chemistry: A Molecular Approach" by Nivaldo J. Tro

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

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