CM1102: CHEMISTRY — THE CENTRAL SCIENCE

Academic Year 25/26 - Semester 1

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Lecturer: A/P Adrian Lee​

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No. of responses : 3

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REVIEWS

What advice would you give to someone considering taking this course?

 

Anonymous: This is not your typical intro mod, you should pay attention in lecture and attend tutorials, the prof actually does a pretty good job explaining

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Anonymous: Get used to the steps needed for calculations using excel sheet. Know the keywords and definitions needed for the structure and bonding portion.

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Anonymous: Watch online videos to help aid your understanding before attending the lectures. Do past year papers and re-attempt tutorial questions to get more practice. 

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What did you enjoy or find most useful from this course?

  

Anonymous: Tutorials are the most useful, as they give you a platform to apply the knowledge learnt from lectures.

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Anonymous: Usage of excel sheet and covering the different applications of MO theory outside of diatomic MO diagrams.

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Anonymous: Tutorials, they helped me identify my areas of weakness and concepts I’m unsure of.

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What aspects of the course did you find most challenging, and why?

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Anonymous: Understanding the content of the mod.

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Anonymous: Heavy qualitative analysis of the applications of quantum mechanics in chemistry. Since most of the materials are covered qualitatively, there are a lot of things to write and knowing the expected key points to cover for finals. Not sure if it was mentioned in his lecture, but only specific definitions are used in CM1102. e.g the usage of Mulliken's (innate, CM1102 def) definition of electronegativity instead of Pauling (relative, H2 chem def) and the usage of EA: X- --> X + e- when IUPAC green book mentions that the other definition (h2 ver) is also accepted I felt that the elemental solid-state conductivity was pretty rushed and there was not much formalisation such as the introduction of Bloch's theorem to explain why bands can be treated based on the combination of orbitals.

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Anonymous: The content was quite hard to grasp and there was only one past year practice paper to work on

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What resources did you find most helpful in helping you better understand the course material?

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Anonymous: Example questions and lecture slides.

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Anonymous: Lectures and tutorials.

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Anonymous: Chemistry YouTube channels.

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