The Princeton Review - Fast track Chemistry: Essential Review for AP, Honors, and Other Advanced Study

The editor of this book would like to thank the tremendous content development team: Nick Leonardi, Eliz Markowitz, Merissa Remus, Catherine Chow, and Suzy Drurey. Thank you so much for your hard work, imagination, enthusiasm, and expertise.

Huge thanks are due to Debbie Weber and Craig Patches, whose unending dedication, intense focus, and imagination have made working on this series an absolute pleasure. Their careful attention and hard work on the original edition of this book made this entire series possible.

Fast Track: Chemistry is a one-stop guide meant to help you keep up with your courseor to accelerate your content expertise. Whether youre a crammer, visual learner, or high-level student looking for extra review, this book is filled to the brim with information that youll benefit from knowing (or brushing up on). Weve taken every opportunity to translate key content into friendly and succinct formats, from annotated illustrations showing every part of an elements entry in the Periodic Table to drawings of collision orientation, and much more. In shortwhich is the point of this bookthink of the following material as a fantastic set of class notes.

This book is pocket-sized because its meant to be used whenever and wherever you want. Waiting on a tardy friend? Spend some time with the elements! Have some time to kill before practice? Warm up with a little chem refresh! These are bite-sized topics that you can pick up and put down at your own pace. Whether you need it for a last-minute review or as a supplement for your class, youll find no judgment here. Remember: its never too late (or too early) to start studying.

What you wont find here are test-taking strategies or practice questions for a specific standardized test, like the AP or SAT Subject exams; for that kind of focus, check out our test-specific chemistry prep titles online or at your local bookstore.

The start of this book takes you all the way back to the fundamental building materials of all matter: atoms. We will explore atomic structure in depth, and pay attention to that first chapter, because everything builds from there. Once we have the foundation laid, we will explore covalent bonding and intermolecular forces, then stoichiometry, precipitation reactions, and gas laws. We will review thermochemistry, equilibrium, redox reactions, electrochemistry, and kinetics, and you know we didnt forget about acids and bases.

In short, this book covers all of the chemistry contentand probably then somethat you would study in a high school chemistry class, AP or otherwise! This means that whether youre cramming for your classs final exam or prepping for an AP or SAT-level test in chemistry, this book can help you get thereon the fast track.

Think of this book like a toolkit: figure out what youre trying to accomplish, and then choose the part that works best for your schedule and your needs.

DIG DEEP

Start by looking at the ASK YOURSELF questions throughout these pages. Youre checking to see where your knowledge might be a bit loose, testing your connections, and identifying tough spots that may need special attention.