I received this great ques­tion the other day from Andrew.

Hello and Greetings.

I’m a stu­dent and I am reg­is­tered to take A&P this fall semes­ter. I heard that the class was very dif­fi­cult so I decided to get a head start and buy my books 2 months early. I’ve been study­ing for awhile now and have had great results. How­ever, I have had a halt in my study­ing when I come to the chem­istry sec­tion of my book. I have a chem­istry back­ground, how­ever chem­istry it seems is one of those things if you don’t use it, you lose it. It’s not very dif­fi­cult for me, the fun­da­men­tals, but more or less the amount of infor­ma­tion and where to begin that is hold­ing me up.

I went to our local library and checked out var­i­ous books, one says “guar­an­teed to boost your grade in 1 month” on the cover. I’m not look­ing for instant results but I am look­ing for some direction. I sup­pose my question(s) is where do I start? Do I start with the bare bones of chem­istry, atoms, mol­e­cules, the peri­odic table, gases? Or do I study what is most impor­tant in A&P class and what only applies? Any help would be greatly appre­ci­ated. By the way, your videos are funny and edu­ca­tional, both of which I believe are needed to teach a class with such vol­ume and dif­fi­cult concepts.

Thank you for your time!

–Andrew

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