In AP chemistry, how much of the textbook is used/covered in class?
toteksd asked:
Any AP chemistry book is fine. I’m using the Zumdahl book and it’s large, just over 1000 page textbook. Can the teacher really cover that much material over a school year so how much of the book is actually used? What are topics left out?
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Any AP chemistry book is fine. I’m using the Zumdahl book and it’s large, just over 1000 page textbook. Can the teacher really cover that much material over a school year so how much of the book is actually used? What are topics left out?
June 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I also used that book. It was extremely large, but it is truly a college textbook- in my class, I don’t even think we covered half of it. We go much less in depth than the textbook did, and we skipped a lot of the chapters. Don’t worry– AP Chemistry isn’t bad.
Acids/Bases, redox, equilibrium, organic chemistry (although only very few basics of this), lattice energy, stoichiometry, chemical reactions, and most topics covered in a basic chemistry course in high school (before AP Chem) such as the people like Dalton, Rutherford, etc. are covered. Basic periodic trends- radius, electronegativity, etc. are also covered, and basic facts about elements and compounds. Its also necessary to memorize many of the polyatomic ions.