<p>rite now we're doing nuclear chemistry in Chang - but yeah, we skip around too</p>
<p>we're on ch. 8-9 in zumdahl</p>
<p>We've finished 1-4 in Zumdahl and we're on chapter 5. Lots of people don't know what we're doing.</p>
<p>that sucks specify, I had the fortune of getting the good honors chem teacher last year who taught from the intro zumdahl book. This resulted in Ch. 1-7 in zumdahl 5th ed being a review w/ some new stuff.</p>
<p>We are on molecules and bonding...We have a new white book, too lazy to look it up and have done 5 or 6 labs.</p>
<p>now on 9 but test on 8-9 next week or something</p>
<p>We did Ch. 13-15 in Zumdahl, skipping around the sections a lot. The teacher doesn't lecture that well so it doesn't really matter where we are. :(</p>
<p>My class is using Zumdahl and we finshing Chapter 8 (Bonds). We have done like eight labs though.</p>
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<p>Nice teacher.</p>
<p>I plan on self-studying for a chemistry AP (ugh), so could anyone recommend a good text-book? (preferably with a link to it's amazon page ;))</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>btw, am I crazy to try self-studying for a chem AP?</p>
<p>We have a chapter 11 (Zumdahl) exam next week. We've done each chapter pretty thoroughly (almost all of the book problems and our own problem packets). </p>
<p>Re: self-studying. I'm not saying it can't be done, but you better be damn strong in science. If you get a textbook (and I recommend Zumdahl's), do EVERY book problem and EVERY practice AP exam that you can find. Also, find someone else in AP chem to send you their lab reports.</p>
<p>I do all the odd problems that have solutions in the back since zumdahl pairs each even problem with a similar odd problem.</p>
<p>But yeah as sous mentioned, you need a strong foundation in science or at least mathematics. A lot of challenging problems can be solved with simpler algebra. Mastery of converting units and dimensional analysis can save you time and frustration.</p>
<p>Also, I'd like to add, that geometry is a must, too. I struggled with chapter 10because I really didn't learn anything in geometry.</p>
<p>Brown.....about 8/9 labs...and we've finished ch1-10...but we're about 2 chapters behind lesson plans..lol</p>
<p>We skipped all the beginning stuff; we're expected to remember it all from Pre-AP Chem I; periodic properties, bonding, geometry, redox...
We're using "Chemistry-The Central Science 10/e" by Brown/LeMay
This year, we've focused on Thermo, Kinetics, Equilibrium, and our final will include all of those, along with Acid-Base Equilibrium.
It's scary because I don't think I'll remember all of the stuff by the AP Test. However, we're reviewing from spring break to the AP Test.</p>
<p>We have done 1-10, 25 in Lemay. We have a practice AP as a first semester final irrelevant of whether we know all the information on the test. It is notorious at our school because everyone fails but there is a huge curve. It doesn't make sense to me, but it'll force me to study.</p>
<p>We have done chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Right now we are working on chapter 7 in Zumdahl. We are so slow! Our teacher says that we already know enough to start taking practice exams, so he is giving us 2 full length AP Chemistry tests to do over Christmas break. I doubt we covered half the curriculum. My teacher doesn't know what he is doing.</p>
<p>we're on chapter six...we're so behind...</p>
<p>We had a test on ch 8/9.1 before break and have to outline chapter 22 (organic chem) during break.</p>
<p>acids and bases in zumdahl</p>