<p>So I will be taking Chem 14a next year with Lavelle but I have no idea which textbooks I will need. It doesnt appear on myucla or anywhere else. Does anyone know what textbooks I need and if so, do you guys know where I can buy them for cheap?</p>
<p>This is the textbook, you’d also probably want the solutions manual:
[Amazon.com:</a> Chemical Principles (9781429219556): Peter Atkins, Loretta Jones: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Principles-Peter-Atkins/dp/1429219556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346043969&sr=1-1&keywords=chemical+principles+atkins+5th+edition]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Principles-Peter-Atkins/dp/1429219556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346043969&sr=1-1&keywords=chemical+principles+atkins+5th+edition)</p>
<p>From what I remember, he didn’t actually assign any problems (certainly not for a grade) it was more just for practice. Powell has it on reserve if you don’t want to fork over the money. </p>
<p>The course reader is what you really want, and you get it from the course reader store on 1080 Broxton Ave. for ~$70. This is necessary as it’s pretty much his lecture notes, practice midterms/solutions, and practice finals/solutions going back at least 5-6 quarters, so this more than anything is helpful in studying. The course reader also comes with a booklet of your section quizzes, which means you can’t use an old copy since they update it every quarter and the TA’s need you to turn in the quiz booklet. You could probably get by without buying the textbook. 14B is the same way: get the course reader and just use the book from Powell if you really want to look at book problems.</p>
<p>Thank you so much! So you would suggest to just get the course reader and the solutions manual right? I’ll just use the textbook from Powell</p>
<p>Powell has the solutions manual as well, so probably don’t need to buy that either. Powell has 6 copies of each book. If you go here and look under “course reserves” you can look up classes to see if the textbooks/supplementary books are there for future classes as well (I know they have the Neuhauser calculus book for the 3 series on reserve as well): [College</a> (Undergraduate) Library | UCLA Library](<a href=“http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/college-undergraduate-library]College”>http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/college-undergraduate-library)</p>
<p>BTW when it says “2 hour reserve”, that means it can only be checked out for two hours at a time. You can check it out for multiple periods, you just can’t keep it, say, overnight in your dorm. You’d pretty much just stay in Powell, which is generally more conducive to studying since you have to stay quiet. They also have study rooms in Powell that you can rent for a few hours at a time if you want to be able to talk with friends while studying, which can be reserved either in person or from the CLICC website. </p>
<p>If you don’t mind using the book in Powell, then all you’d need to buy is the course reader =)</p>
<p>Note: Do the homework problems. He usually picks one of the hw problems to be on the midterm/final. And do well on the practice quizzes (the booklet that comes with the course reader) as the scores from the practice quizzes can make up for a quiz grade. Just saying :)</p>
<p>But yeah, you don’t need to buy the textbook or solutions manual, just go to powell.</p>