<p>General Chem 2 -
States of matter, solutions, thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, oxidation-reduction processes, and electrochemical cells</p>
<p>I took the AP chem test and got out of General Chem 1, by looking at the course description I think I'll be fine (im not a chem major, it's for a gened). In high school, the last thing I remember doing are buffers.</p>
<p>Are there any surprises like in physics it's calc based, in chem theres __? or are the topics in more depth? </p>
<p>Also, I was wondering what kind of labs would pertain to these topics? I know its school-specific but I would like to know in general before I actually signed up for the class and opt for something else to fulfill the gened. Like do you have a lab partner(s) grab data, graph, and write a report and thats it?</p>
<p>--Also, the textbook is free online, i'll only need lab googles and one of those clickers for the 300+ person lecture.</p>
<p>You are probably better off asking the chemistry department at your school, or another student at your school who has taken AP chemistry to skip the first semester of the chemistry sequence. If old final exams from the first semester chemistry course are available, take a look at those and see if you know all of the stuff tested on them.</p>
<p>Non honors general chemistry courses and AP Chemistry usually cover almost identical material. Some colleges just want you to take their own chemistry courses (maybe they want to ensure you have laboratory experience). A lot of chemistry is mathy - innocuous topics that you encounter in general chemistry such as quantum numbers, thermodynamics, reaction rates, etc will involve a lot of calculus if you take more advanced courses but I doubt you’ll see that in your general chemistry courses (unless you’re in HYPSM and the like).</p>
<p>I also took AP Chem in high school and placed out of Chem 1. Tonight is my very last Chem 2 class of the semester, thank god lol. The class was honestly a joke. It covers nearly identical material to the second semester of AP Chem, everything felt like review. You shouldn’t have a hard time at all. Chapters we covered were Chemical Kinetics, Equilibrium, Acids and Bases, Aqueous Equilibrium, Thermodynamics, Electrochemistry, and Radiochemistry. We had one lab that pertained specifically to each chapter, i.e. determining the rate law for a reaction, determination of Kc for equilibrium reactions, determination of Ka/Kb for unknowns, creating galvanic cells, etc.</p>