Help Basic Of Chemistry

[Rexspidy]

I want to details of Atomic structure ,perodic tables,Orbital diagram,Hybridization,Chemical bonding etc .

I need to clear the basic of chemistry .So help me out giving any possible video links,Sites or tutorial guide .Thanks

[DrP]

That is such a broad field - you want a book on chemistry tailored to the level/course that you are studying for. If you have a test tomorrow then or something then you have left it too late.

 

So in order to be of use to you we will need to know: - what course are you doing?

Edited August 25, 2015 by DrP

[Rexspidy]

I just admitted in Chemistry Course.So want to clear all the basic needs ,Books does not have the basics concept .

[Prometheus]

I'll always recommend Khan academy for the basics.

[studiot]

 

Books does not have the basics concept

 

I wish you all success in your course, but you will fail if you think you know better than tutors with many years of experience.

 

Chemistry a Structural View by Stranks

 

Chemistry by Lewis and Evans

 

Chemical Binding and Structure by Spice

 

all meet your stated needs and much more.

 

The much more is very important since you don't know what the basics are or what you are missing by selecting topics.

Any of these above books will give you a rounded view and help you do well.

 

[DrP]

I just admitted in Chemistry Course.

 

What level? Degree, college. high school, GCSE, A-level? If you know absolutely nothing about the topic you listed I will assume it is school... then you need to tell us what year - what they teach you depends on what you know already and how far through the course you are.

 

Also - you need to ask specific questions - not just list your syllabus and expect us to explain it all to you straight off like that - what exactly do you not understand about the periodic table, for example?

 

I mean - the 5 topics you listed above could be the titles for 5 x 1 hour lectures as an intro course into chemistry.... you ain't gonna get all that from this thread,

Edited August 25, 2015 by DrP

[Strange]

I mean - the 5 topics you listed above could be the titles for 5 x 1 hour lectures as an intro course into chemistry.... you ain't gonna get all that from this thread,

 

Or, any one of them could be covered in a bit more detail in a series of thirty 2-hour lectures (and, in most cases, there would still be a lot to learn)

[DrP]

Indeed Mr Strange... and you could then take any one of those titles and take a detailed subsection of it and spend 3/4 years studying and researching around the subject for some kind of post grad degree.

[Strange]

And then spend your entire career studying the details of one step of a single reaction!

[DrP]

@OP/Rexspidy - For 'basic' information regarding the defining of terms and clearing things up that you find and do not understand in text books I would like to recommend 'The Penguin Dictionary of Science' and or 'The Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry', although I have always found what I need to know in the former.

 

Just to make it clear - I am not joking, teasing or being sarcastic at all - they are really good books for define things that the text books assume you already know. I was still using 'The Penguin Dictionary of Science' for the odd thing whilst doing my Ph.D..... although I do realise that that makes me sound a lot like Holly from Red Dwarf. lol.

[Prometheus]

[Strange]

I was still using 'The Penguin Dictionary of Science' for the odd thing whilst doing my Ph.D.....

 

Like propping up a wonky table leg ?

[DrP]

Ha ha ha! no no, my undergrad degree was Chemical Physics... we only touched on Organic Chemistry on that course, whereas, I had to use/was expected to know a lot of organic chem when doing my Ph.D. which was in straight Chemistry... thus, I found it useful to look up reaction pathways up and other terms that I was unsure of or never actually learned during my BSc or A-Level. You'd be surprised at how good it is for definition of terms... well, it is a dictionary after all, so maybe not.

[Strange]

I'm fairly sure I still have a copy on the shelf somewhere ...

[DevilSolution]

I've got a good book on the basis for chemistry, haven't got close to finishing it however. I like the way you can imagine that (almost) everything in existence is formed from some very basic principles. Not quite got into organic chemistry yet but carbon chains and functional groups make sense. Books are probably best, online learning seems for me at least to make procrastination easier.