What Preparation Should You Have

The most important thing you can bring is a strong desire to master the subject. We hope you already have some knowledge of general chemistry and 

The above is an incomplete list, given to illustrate the level of preparation we are presuming in this text. If you find very much of this list partly or wholly unfamiliar, you don t have to give up, but have a good general chemistry textbook available for study and reference—and use it Some useful general chemistry books are listed at the end of the chapter. A four-place table of logarithms will be necessary a set of ball-and-stick models and a chemical handbook will be very helpful, as would be a small electronic calculator or slide rule to carry out the simple arithmetic required for many of the exercises. 

In the next section, we review some general chemistry regarding saltlike and covalent compounds that will be of special relevance to our later discussions. 

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