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A practical and hands-on guide for learning the practical science of AP chemistry and preparing for the AP chem exam
Gearing up for the AP Chemistry exam? AP Chemistry For Dummies is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. Focused on the chemistry concepts and problems the College Board wants you to know, this AP Chemistry study guide gives you winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and topic guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.
This user-friendly guide helps you prepare without perspiration by developing a pre-test plan, organizing your study time, and getting the most out or your AP course. You'll get help understanding atomic structure and bonding, grasping atomic geometry, understanding how colliding particles produce states, and so much more.
To provide students with hands-on experience, AP chemistry courses include extensive labwork as part of the standard curriculum. This is why the book dedicates a chapter to providing a brief review of common laboratory equipment and techniques and another to a complete survey of recommended AP chemistry experiments. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies.
You'll discover how to
Create and follow a pretest plan
Understand everything you must know about the exam
Develop a multiple-choice strategy
Figure out displacement, combustion, and acid-base reactions
Get familiar with stoichiometry
Describe patterns and predict properties
Get a handle on organic chemistry nomenclature
Know your way around laboratory concepts, tasks, equipment, and safety
Analyze laboratory data
Use practice exams to maximize your score
Additionally, you'll have a chance to brush up on the math skills that will help you on the exam, learn the critical types of chemistry problems, and become familiar with the annoying exceptions to chemistry rules. Get your own copy of AP Chemistry For Dummies to build your confidence and test-taking know-how, so you can ace that exam!
Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Thriving Inside the Test Tube: How to Prepare for the Exam 5
Chapter 1: Knowing What You're Up Against: The AP Chemistry Exam 7
Chapter 2: Preparing Yourself for the Exam 15
Part II: Building Matter from the Ground Up: Atoms and Bonding 21
Chapter 3: Looking Under the Atomic Hood: Atomic Structure 23
Chapter 4: Answering Questions about Atomic Structure 41
Chapter 5: Working and Playing Together: Bonding 47
Chapter 6: Answering Questions on Bonding 59
Chapter 7: Doing Atomic Geometry: Molecular Shapes 63
Chapter 8: Answering Questions on Molecular Shapes 75
Part III: Colliding Particles to Produce States 81
Chapter 9: Putting a Finger to the Wind: Gases 83
Chapter 10: Answering Questions on Gases 91
Chapter 11: Condensing Particles: Solids, Liquids, and Solutions 97
Chapter 12: Answering Questions on Solids, Liquids, and Solutions 115
Part IV: Transforming Matter in Reactions 127
Chapter 13: Reacting by the Numbers: Reactions and Stoichiometry 129
Chapter 14: Answering Questions on Reactions and Stoichiometry 143
Chapter 15: Going Nowhere: Equilibrium 153
Chapter 16: Answering Questions on Equilibrium 161
Chapter 17: Giving and Taking in Solution: Acids and Bases 167
Chapter 18: Answering Questions on Acids and Bases 177
Chapter 19: Transferring Charge: Oxidation-Reduction 183
Chapter 20: Answering Questions on Oxidation-Reduction 197
Chapter 21: Knowing Speed from Spontaneity: Kinetics and Thermodynamics 207
Chapter 22: Answering Questions on Kinetics and Thermodynamics 223
Part V: Describing Patterns and Predicting Properties 233
Chapter 23: Knowing Chemistry When You See It: Descriptive Chemistry 235
Chapter 24: Answering Questions on Descriptive Chemistry 243
Chapter 25: Living with Carbon: Organic Chemistry 251
Chapter 26: Answering Questions on Organic Chemistry 267
Part VI: Getting Wet and Dirty: Labs 271
Chapter 27: Knowing Your Way around the Lab: Equipment and Procedures 273
Chapter 28: Taking the Tour: Recommended AP Experiments 281
Part VII: Measuring Yields: Practice Tests 299
Chapter 29: Practice Test One 301
Chapter 30: Practice Test Two 323
Part VIII: The Part of Tens 349
Chapter 31: Ten Math Skills to Bring with You to the Exam 351
Chapter 32: Ten Critical Types of Chemistry Problems 357
Chapter 33: Ten Annoying Exceptions to Chemistry Rules 365
Index 371
