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? asked in Education & ReferenceTeaching · 1 decade ago

Can anyone help me develop an interest in chemistry?

This likely sounds a little silly, but I'm trying to motivate myself towards an actual interest. I'm generally fond of learning, and I love all subjects left-brained. Give me a course in history or English or a foreign language, and I'll gladly spend hours on the topic. General chemistry, however, has become the bane of my existence, and I can't help but feel like it would be more pleasant if I could see the connection between electron spin and the actual, functioning, visible world. Can anyone recommend a book, website, or publication that's oriented around applied chemistry and still intriguing to a scientific layman? If not, do you have any suggestions as to how to connect chemistry to the rest of the subjects that fit in the web of things-I-understand? :P

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  • 1 decade ago
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    u did not mention your age or grade level but I will guess HS, soph or junior year.

    YOU are normal; like a car driver, you want the basics; how it runs--pistons,

    transmission, battery, fuel and tires STOP. enough about cars.

    chemistry--temperature, periodic elements, gases, liquids, solids, etc.

    but HOW DO THEY RELATE to each other.

    VISIT a college class in chemistry--or just the professor in his office.. GET what would be called APPLIED CHEMISTRY;

    how it is used to affect your world.

    i invented, by the way, HOLISTIC ACCOUNTING to accomplish the same thing

    with accounting students, as you want in chemistry.

    I understand!!

    if you find no flexible chemistry teacher, let me know and I will seek one out for you.

    if you are under age 18 as i suspect it is essential that you inform an adult relative that

    I have responded to you.............i have great ethics and I do not permit

    covert communications between minors and adults who are not their relative.

    Source(s): biz teacher
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Developing interest and doing well go hand in hand with each other. It's hard to do well if you're not interested, and hard to be interested in something that you find really difficult. It's hard to predict what would rekindle your interest, but you might try reading some science that isn't presented in a textbook. Popular science magazines, for example, which will talk about applications of chemistry and physics without you having to learn a lot of details about how the science works. Maybe that would pique your curiosity enough to make it more interesting to learn the underlying concepts... but if you really aren't finding science enjoyable and accessible, perhaps it simply isn't for you, and you would enjoy putting your effort into something that you find more interesting.

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