Most difficult concept to grasp in unit 3

[soccerboi]

What did u guys find most difficult to understand in unit 3? At the moment im finding the spectroscopy topic to be very confusing. Is this the same for everyone else?

[pi]

The theory in NMR, how it actually worked (to a VCE level), That was complex imo.

[acinod]

Yea spectroscopy is ridiculous. I remember going through the entire Unit 3 in the summer holidays and when I got to Chromatography and Spectroscopy I just gave up.

Then I realized it's actually the easiest topic.

[soccerboi]

what sort of questions do they ask on spectroscopy in the exam? Is it jus reading off the graph type questions?

[karenn]

Yea spectroscopy is ridiculous. I remember going through the entire Unit 3 in the summer holidays and when I got to Chromatography and Spectroscopy I just gave up.

Exactly what i'm experiencing now :\

[soccerboi]

Yea spectroscopy is ridiculous. I remember going through the entire Unit 3 in the summer holidays and when I got to Chromatography and Spectroscopy I just gave up.

Then I realized it's actually the easiest topic.

How is it the easiest? Its so hard to understand with all the different types.

[pi]

Yea spectroscopy is ridiculous. I remember going through the entire Unit 3 in the summer holidays and when I got to Chromatography and Spectroscopy I just gave up.

Then I realized it's actually the easiest topic.

How is it the easiest? Its so hard to understand with all the different types.

When you get used to it, you'll rarely get it wrong. I think that's what he meant

[ggxoxo]

^Like probability in methods...

[happycat]

I thought that spectroscopy was a lot of memory work. I did better with stoichiometry.

[pi]

^Like probability in methods...

Yeh, pretty much


(although I swear I never got conditional prob though)

[happycat]

^Like probability in methods...

Yeh, pretty much


(although I swear I never got conditional prob though)

Me neither, I sort've did probability blind .

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[Panicmode]

Definitely the spectroscopy section .

Here's the thing. I have a pathological need to understand why something works. Saying, "because it just does" doesn't qualify in my books; this is essentially what the VCE course does. In reality you need to remember a one line statement and how to read/interpret graphs (not challenging at all really ._.) but it gets difficult when you try and understand the complexities behind it all.