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What path/classes should one take to becoming a chemist?
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Chaos Butterfly
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Where are you starting from? High School? College? What?
If you want to be employed in a Chemistry Lab, then you pretty much won't need any equipment at all. It is all provided in the lab.
If by 'Chemist' you mean 'Pharmacist' (which in some places means the same thing as a pharmacy is often called a chemist) then again, you don't need any equipment at all.
Shifting over to College and University.
If you want to be employed in a Chemistry Lab, then you pretty much won't need any equipment at all. It is all provided in the lab.
If by 'Chemist' you mean 'Pharmacist' (which in some places means the same thing as a pharmacy is often called a chemist) then again, you don't need any equipment at all.
Shifting over to College and University.
Beenhead
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If your in a college, you can log on to your school's website and look it up in liberal arts and sciences. in the Chemistry department they will show you all the prerecs.
Generally for normal chem you need:
Gen Chem I & II
Organic Chem I & II
Calc I II & III
Physics with algebra or Calculus I & II
those are just prerecs. Im in Biochem and I need all those and Core Bio I & II,
Generally for normal chem you need:
Gen Chem I & II
Organic Chem I & II
Calc I II & III
Physics with algebra or Calculus I & II
those are just prerecs. Im in Biochem and I need all those and Core Bio I & II,
subopm420
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your school should have a set path for a bs in chem or whatever you are looking for.
talk to your academic councilor
if you mean you want to get an amateur appreciation for chem, but still major in something else, i would still look at the prerecs and upper level classes needed in a degree for chem. also, at least at my school, each class has a description written in the catalog about it, so i would check out that as well.
xurious, what are you looking for (degree or just knowledge), and what purpose do you wish your chem knowledge to serve?
talk to your academic councilor
if you mean you want to get an amateur appreciation for chem, but still major in something else, i would still look at the prerecs and upper level classes needed in a degree for chem. also, at least at my school, each class has a description written in the catalog about it, so i would check out that as well.
xurious, what are you looking for (degree or just knowledge), and what purpose do you wish your chem knowledge to serve?
Follow the above courses, but I'd add in Inorganic Chemistry, and maybe Physical Chemistry if offered. Also try to take some courses related to the instruments you'll be using (I don't mean beakers or pipettes, I mean the big machines, like IR Spec 20, NMR, GCMS, etc). Most Chem. labs will provide a small overview of the machines, but specialized courses will really help you out. Those courses would all give you a strong background in chemistry.
IHateOpiophobes
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For a chem degree you have to take all Chemistry, all the time.
Physical Chem (Probably one of the hardest classes. You have to be very abstract minded. Visulize movement of electrons dropping in and out of shells, hybrid orbitals. Some of it was easy when you took Entry Chem and you skimmed the surface, but once you are balls deep, it gets pretty intense. At least in my case. Movement of waves (Light and Energy) in physics is similar idea (abstract) is what really takes a complete understanding to do well. No BSing just enough to pass the tests.
Organic Chem/Inorganic Chem
Bio-Chem
Gen-Chem
(Physics and Calculus) Sometimes there is a calculus for science majors that "might" fly.
Look up at your school....it's real easy. Finding out what you need that is.
Physical Chem (Probably one of the hardest classes. You have to be very abstract minded. Visulize movement of electrons dropping in and out of shells, hybrid orbitals. Some of it was easy when you took Entry Chem and you skimmed the surface, but once you are balls deep, it gets pretty intense. At least in my case. Movement of waves (Light and Energy) in physics is similar idea (abstract) is what really takes a complete understanding to do well. No BSing just enough to pass the tests.
Organic Chem/Inorganic Chem
Bio-Chem
Gen-Chem
(Physics and Calculus) Sometimes there is a calculus for science majors that "might" fly.
Look up at your school....it's real easy. Finding out what you need that is.
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