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Organic chemistry and biochemistry are very different from physics, but chemistry is a very large field and these are just a small part of it. You should have
by nnq 12y ago
Organic chemistry and biochemistry are very different from physics, but chemistry is a very large field and these are just a small part of it.
You should have been exposed to physical chemistry or computational chemistry or maybe even quantum chemistry or analytical chemistry, if your are mathematically inclined.
...but unfortunately they are considered very advanced topics in most learning institutions, even if one could start with them from the very beginning, instead of "classical chemistry". And more unfortunately, after the tedium of "classical chemistry", what you are presented with next are very boring aspects of "organic chemistry" or "biochemistry".
- bostik 12y agoAiieee, physical chemistry. That thing approaches pure evil. The chemistry department in the university I studied at required 4 courses of physical chemistry. The introductory course was bad enough - the course had mandatory practice sessions, where assistants were at hand to aid with the supposedly trickier bits. Each session was 1h45m straight. 5 weeks in, there was a supposedly simple exercise. When nobody at the class got even past the initial hurdles in the first 15 minutes, the assistant decided to show how it's done. He failed to finish the calculations in the remaining 90 minutes ... and he knew how the steps went. Eventually I changed my major from chemistry to CS. EDIT: btw, the assistant in question was a post-grad so lack of domain knowledge was not the reason.