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Summary

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. 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 much more. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies. 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 scoreAP Chemistry For Dummies gives you the support, confidence, and test-taking know-how you need to demonstrate your ability when it matters most.

Introduction
Thriving Inside the Test Tube: How to Prepare for the Exam
Knowing What You're Up Against: The AP Chemistry Exam
Preparing Yourself for the Exam
Building Matter from the Ground Up: Atoms and Bonding
Looking Under the Atomic Hood: Atomic Structure
Answering Questions about Atomic Structure
Working and Playing Together: Bonding
Answering Questions on Bonding
Doing Atomic Geometry: Molecular Shapes
Answering Questions on Molecular Shapes
Colliding Particles to Produce States
Putting a Finger to the Wind: Gases
Answering Questions on Gases
Condensing Particles: Solids, Liquids, and Solutions
Answering Questions on Solids, Liquids, and Solutions
Transforming Matter in Reactions
Reacting by the Numbers: Reactions and Stoichiometry
Answering Questions on Reactions and Stoichiometry
Going Nowhere: Equilibrium
Answering Questions on Equilibrium
Giving and Taking in Solution: Acids and Bases
Answering Questions on Acids and Bases
Transferring Charge: Oxidation-Reduction
Answering Questions on Oxidation-Reduction
Knowing Speed from Spontaneity: Kinetics and Thermodynamics
Answering Questions on Kinetics and Thermodynamics
Describing Patterns and Predicting Properties
Knowing Chemistry When You See It: Descriptive Chemistry
Answering Questions on Descriptive Chemistry
Living with Carbon: Organic Chemistry
Answering Questions on Organic Chemistry
Getting Wet and Dirty: Labs
Knowing Your Way around the Lab: Equipment and Procedures
Taking the Tour: Recommended AP Experiments
Measuring Yields: Practice Tests
Practice Test One
Practice Test Two
The Part of Tens
Ten Math Skills to Bring with You to the Exam
Ten Critical Types of Chemistry Problems
Ten Annoying Exceptions to Chemistry Rules
Index
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