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Help Me Please
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 08:45 pmHas anyone here studied Chemistry to undergraduate level? If so, can you please explain everything?
I am really struggling with my course right now, and getting really stressed given that next week I am away at a conference for part of the week and so that, plus Christmas activities, effectively rule out studying. I'm having trouble understanding practically everything I've read so far.
It's not all my fault, I believe - we have only the book to go on. The previous book (Physics) had lots of videos and animations to watch, including completely pointless stuff like watching someone rearrange loads of equations. The book burbles on about ions and valencies and bonds and electrical charges with really tiny diagrams to explain it all. There isn't even a copy of the Periodic Table - well there is one printed in the book, but I would have thought it reasonable to include a laminated A4 copy separately so the book didn't get thrashed to pieces cos you're constantly turning pages back & forth to read it. Given that previous courses have included laminated A4 lists of contents of the books ("a handy bookmark") I'd like to know what chemicals the people who put together this part of the course had ingested.
Thing is, if I can't pass Chemistry, I won't pass the course. Which means no degree, no future that's any different from my past, nothing. I've asked for help on the course forum (which is for students and teaching staff) but so far nothing. I hope someone answers with something that will help, because I don't know what I'm going to do otherwise.
I am really struggling with my course right now, and getting really stressed given that next week I am away at a conference for part of the week and so that, plus Christmas activities, effectively rule out studying. I'm having trouble understanding practically everything I've read so far.
It's not all my fault, I believe - we have only the book to go on. The previous book (Physics) had lots of videos and animations to watch, including completely pointless stuff like watching someone rearrange loads of equations. The book burbles on about ions and valencies and bonds and electrical charges with really tiny diagrams to explain it all. There isn't even a copy of the Periodic Table - well there is one printed in the book, but I would have thought it reasonable to include a laminated A4 copy separately so the book didn't get thrashed to pieces cos you're constantly turning pages back & forth to read it. Given that previous courses have included laminated A4 lists of contents of the books ("a handy bookmark") I'd like to know what chemicals the people who put together this part of the course had ingested.
Thing is, if I can't pass Chemistry, I won't pass the course. Which means no degree, no future that's any different from my past, nothing. I've asked for help on the course forum (which is for students and teaching staff) but so far nothing. I hope someone answers with something that will help, because I don't know what I'm going to do otherwise.
