The year 12 course. (1 Viewer)

[adomad]

i am interested in buying a book called instant lessons in chemistry, but there are 3 and i don't know what one to buy so here is what is included in the books and can those people who have done or are doing chem in year 12 please tell me which one(s) are useful to the course

book 1: ( i know that these are mainly year 11 topics
opics Included:
- Physical and chemical properties
- Mass and density
- Pure substances and Mixtures
- Solids, liquids and gases
- Soluble and insoluble substances
- Dilute and concentrated solutions
- Atoms and Molecules
- The Periodic Table
- Flame tests and Elements
- Dalton and Thomson theories of Atomic Structure
- Law of Constant Proportions
- Properties of Cathode Rays and Positive rays in Crookes's tube
- Isotopes and Relative Atomic Mass
- Atoms and Ions
- Rutherford and Bohr
- Electron arrangement and Atomic Radius
- Ionisation energy and electron affinity
- Electron configuration and Valency
- Metals and non metals-physical and chemical properties
- Orbitals and Subshells
- Radioactivity and half-life
- Alpha, beta and gamma decay
- Ionic compounds and empirical formulas
- Formulas and Valency.

book 2 some year 11 topics here)
Topics Included:
- Writing and balancing equations
- Dissociation and Precipitation
- Activity series and displacement of metals
- Acids bases and Neutralisation
- Molecular mass and Molar mass
- Mass ratio and mole ratio
- Gay Lussac and Avogadro's Law
- Molar volume and molar mass
- Graphs and reaction rate
- Effect of temperature and clock technique
- Covalent bonds and shapes of molecules
- Bonding and physical properties
- Arrhenius and Lowry Bronsted theories
- Hydronium ion and pH
- Boyles's and Charles's Laws
- Real and ideal gases
- Heat capacity and measuring Heat of Combustion
- Endothermic and Exothermic changes
- Change of state and Enthalpy change
- Chemical reactions and activation energy.

book 3:
Topics Included:
- Hess's Law and calculations using it
- Fuels
- Characteristics of Equilibrium
- Calculations using equilibrium constant
- Lowry Bronsted
- Conjugate acids and bases
- Solutions and Molarities
- Preparing a standard solution
- Setting up Titration Equipment
- Strong acid/ strong base, weak acid/strong base and strong acid/weak base exercises
- Titration calculations
- Saturated and Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
- Substitution and addition reactions
- Alkanols, Alkanals and Alkanones
- Primary, secondary and tertiary alkanols
- Acids, Alcohols and Esters
- Refluxing and Distillation
- Isomers and chemical formulas.


thanks guys and girls

 

[shady145]

well u do physics so the first one would be good if u do Q2Q
all of them cover different things out of different core topics

 

[adomad]

the thing is that they are $50 each so i'm trying to only buy what i need or try to find a cheaper one on these forums, ( i already have but the seller isn't responding )

 

[rufous]

Greetings Matey,
If I were you, I would shelve the idea of the lessons book and instead go for the "Surfing" series as these have nice easy notes with questions and many answers supplied - an excellent resource for students. Only errors that I have found have been very minor and easily fixed. Suss out a second hand source or if not they are about $20 per book one for each module and each option.

Good luck

 

[adomad]

yeah, i just wanted the work sheets so i could have some questions to do, but they seem too expensive. ill just do the sheets that the teacher gives me and i'll buy a few study guides such as surfing chem