From now on I will write fortnightly in this blog about random aspects of my life.
Back in mid-December I went to my Aunts' place in Ulla Dulla, NSW. Kind of a good place actually, quiet space and beach is 10 mins drive away, what are you asking for, more? It's good enough.
I walked into the house and the first thing is that I noticed a cupboard full of books. Nothing special about the cupboard, but after that I found something I wanted so much, Reference books for Physics, Chemistry and even maths, something so good that I won't be able to bring them home as I thought about them. I sat down and started reading about Organic Chemistry (Written by C. W. Wood, A. K. Holiday and R. J. S. Beer, published 1973, The English Language Book Society) and suddenly my auntie came to me,"You can take those home If you want" was the first sentence she spoke. I was so happy about it, yes very happy about it. I will need them with me to survive the onslaught in the coming two years in which I need to do extremely well. I choose what I need and put them into a box and I am still awaiting them to be sent. to my home.
I chose about 4 books to go with me on the plane back to Melbourne and they are:
Organic Chemistry (Written by C. W. Wood, A. K. Holiday and R. J. S. Beer, published 1973, The English Language Book Society)
Physical Chemistry (Written by C. W. Wood, A. K. Holiday, published 1973, The English Language Book Society)
Teach Yourself Calculus(Written by P. Abbott, published 1973, The English Language Book Society)
How to Solve General Chemistry Problems(Written by C.H. Sorum, Prentice-Hall 1969)
At this stage I am only going to talk about the Organic Chemistry since it's the only one I have started reading because I am really lacking knowledge of Organic Chemistry and I have better knowledge on Physical(Inorganic) Chemistry.
The book itself is designed for GCSE A-Level so the reader needs a knowledge level of GCSE O-Level to read it. I didn't have it so I went over the new Year 11 Textbook to catch up with the missing knowledge. There's not much to catch up tho as the book talked about most fundamentals in the opening pages of the book. Also the language used to write the book is quite old which is very interesting.
Every chapter are really detailed as it should be for the 70's. It came in much more detail when compared to my Year 11 textbook which didn't provide a lot. The book gave a lot of interesting details about the bonding in different compunds and what is means to the Properties of the compound. It also talked about how functional groups which has simliar bonds can be similar in chemical properties. The Chemical Properties section is also full on in-depth ideas in which I haven't learnt at all.
At the end of chapter, the authors gaves us a simple summary of what the chapter has talked about and some exam questions which was hard since they took it out of A-Level and even First-year Examinations and I need to work on it.
The book also talked about organic synthesis and the determination of Molecular Formulae in which can be leftover for now as I have to study about
the functional group fundamentals first.
Overall the book is a great read which will help me a lot in the coming years. They are hard to find now because It's been out for more than 35 years but still I got to find them and taking them with me.
There goes the first episode of Gordon's Corner ans I would be back on the 11th of February.
