For those who teach chemistry?
Question Details: I would really like to get started learning chemistry but I don't know where to get started. There are so many different sub topics like Organic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Organofluorine Chemistry, etc
Where should I start to learn chemistry if I have not background on it what so ever? Organic maybe? I'm lost...
Thanks for your answers.
Answer:
I was in your shoes at one point. I had no clue what I was going to go into and decided on chemistry. It would be well worth the investment of your time. Chemistry is probably the most diverse field for post graduate opportunities.
This is the order I learned in:
1. General Chemistry
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Analytical Chemistry
4. Biochemistry
5. Quantum Chemistry
6. Thermochemistry
I would recommend getting an advisor and taking a survey of chemistry course. You will talk about alot of the topics discussed in your question.
You should start off by studying general chemistry. That will touch on many different kinds of chemistry and prepare you for other advanced classes.
Go to yard sales, thrift stores, and similar places and buy a couple of older beginning chemistry books. You want to get a couple, because they all read a little different. Then just start reading. You can also find info at the reference given (go to the "general" links). Organic or other specialties you can't tackle until after you have the basics.
There really is no fixed sequence for learning Chem. However, I would suggest starting with basics and Inorganic Chem. Then move onto Organic Chem, then the remaining can be in any order as they are not really inter-dependent. i.e. you don't need to know one to understand the other
Dear friend, I believe that any science, you from the principle, as easy as complicated. Did I suggest the book: Chemistry. by Raymond Chang. This will resumption a good basis, if you your time and effort. Then you can continue with"ESSENTIALS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY". BY PAUL M. DEWICK, wiley-interscience. With these two books, tendras an accurate picture of the science of chemistry, and you can address issues more complex as pharmacology, toxicology, organic synthesis, and all others referrals from this lofty science.
With my best wishes.
I think it may be difficult to embark on chemistry independently. That said, I would suggest taking a general chemistry class at your local community college. The structure to learning chemistry that this course should provide will be very helpful.
Chemistry is a lot of fun. It definitely takes a lot of time and effort. Just learning the concepts is insufficient (to doing well in a chemistry class). You have to find the time to do practice problems - to apply the concepts to specific examples. Best of luck!
From my experience I can recommend you the following order to study Chemistry:
1.- General concepts of Chemistry (definitions of Chemistry, matter, energy, elemental mathematics as SI units handling, etc.)
2.- A brief Chemistry History to discover the principal names of men that made this science build up.
3.- Atomic theory (again historical aspects as discovery of radiactivity, X-Rays, Thompson model of atom, Rutherford model, Bohr model). Structure of atom (electronic configuration, aufbau principle, Pauli principle, etc.)
4.- Nomenclature and Discovery of Elements.
5.- General Inorganic nomenclature
6.- Chemical Bonding Nature's Theories.
7.- Stoichometry (chemical reactions, balance of equations, calculations of mass, limiting reactant, etc.). In this point, you can study with deeper knowledge, Inorganic Chemistry reactions.
8.- Termochemistry
9- Chemistry Kinetics
10.- Electrochemistry
11.- Coloidal Chemistry
12.- Analytical Chemistry
13.- Organic Chemistry fundamentals
14.- Organic Chemistry nomenclature
15.- Organic Chemistry - Estereochemistry
16.- Organic Chemistry - Study of Reactions
17.- Biochemistry fundamentals
18.- Biochemistry - Study of Biomolecules (Proteins, Enzymes, Carbohidrates, Fats or lipids)
19.- Biochemistry - Study of Metabolism (Glycolisis, Krebs cycle, etc.)
20.- Biochemistry - Study of Molecular Genetics
At the end you can study Nuclear Chemistry.
I think that the list of topics above, would be a good beginning to know all the main areas of this exciting science.
Good luck!
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