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Chemistry degree textbook

Hi, I am going to be a Year 13 student in September, studying Chemistry, Physics, Maths, and Further Maths, and I want to study Chemistry at university. I’ve learned most of the stuff already in A levels (apart from Further Maths). Are there any university textbooks that you guys recommend I buy for Chemistry? Do I also need to buy some calculus textbooks?
Original post by Daniel0814
Hi, I am going to be a Year 13 student in September, studying Chemistry, Physics, Maths, and Further Maths, and I want to study Chemistry at university. I’ve learned most of the stuff already in A levels (apart from Further Maths). Are there any university textbooks that you guys recommend I buy for Chemistry? Do I also need to buy some calculus textbooks?

If I’m honest, maths and FM should have you largely covered for the calculus, but the chances are they won’t go over partial differentiation (unless you do one of the OCR further maths courses with the additional pure maths / extra pure option taken).

If the universities you are planning to apply to have reading lists, look there first for ideas. If not, then my personal recommendation is “Chemistry^3: introducing inorganic, organic and physical chemistry” by Burrows et al. as it is an accessible text that should have you covered for the first two years of the course and may well still be of considerable use in the third.
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Lists of recommended reading from Oxford and Cambridge - good for all Unis :
super-curricular_suggestions.pdf (cam.ac.uk)
Suggested Subject Resources | University of Oxford

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