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My Notes

Here are some of my notes. If I make Anki decks I'd like to upload them here too but I'm more of a traditionalist and most of my flashcards are written solely on index cards. You're welcome to use or save or modify any of these notes, just don't sell them or anything. Knowledge should be accessible to all. Cheers!

High School Chemistry

• Chemistry 20 Pre-AP Formula/Data Sheet. 2 pages. Covers atomic theory, bonding, gas stoichiometry, solutions, and acids & bases.
• Chemistry 30: Organic Chemistry. 1 page. Contains definitions and a few notes.
• Chemistry 30: Equilibrium and Acid-Base Reactions. 1 page. Contains definitions and a few notes.
• Chemistry 30: Electrochemistry. 1 page. Unfinished; contains some definitions and a few notes.

High School Math

• Math 30 Formula Sheet and Useful Guide. 2 pages. Contains definitions and reference material.
• AP Calc Guide. 4 pages. Incomplete but might be helpful.

High School Physics

• Physics 30 Formula/Data Sheet. 2 pages. Contains information for the units of Momentum & Impulse, Electric Fields & Forces, Magnetic Fields & Forces, and Light, but not for Modern or Nuclear Physics.

Undergraduate Mathematics

• Calculus 1 Pre-Midterm Key Terms. 2 pages. Absolute value, triangle inequality, limits of sequences, monotonic sequences, boundedness, function limits, squeeze theorem, infinite limits/limits to infinity, continuity/types of discontinuity, intermediate value theorem, bisection method to approximate solutions, extrema, extreme value theorem.

Resources for Learning

Here are a handful of resources I've found helpful throughout my academic career.

• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine. A free online library that you can sign up for with an email to check out books, like a normal library. It contains scanned texts as well as music, radio, TV, and images. Wayback Machine can be used to archive sites.
• Sci-Hub. Tool allowing access to articles from scientific journals, with the goal of providing "free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge".
• Anna's Archive. Non-profit "shadow library" with the goal of preserving humanity's knowledge and making it available to everyone. You can get textbooks and papers here, like with Sci-Hub or Libgen.
• Archive.today. Website archive tool that takes both a graphical and text snapshot of pages. The snapshots "have no active elements and no scripts". (It sometimes gets around paywalled articles such as for the New York Times).

Language Studies

I'm working on learning a few different languages! The ones that I'm most interested in learning right now are French (specifically Québécois French), Cantonese, Persian, and Hungarian. I'd suppose I'd also like to learn German and Russian eventually.

French

I'd like to get to be reasonably fluent in French, to speak it as a second language if I could. I mainly use Duolingo to learn since it has a reasonably well-developed French course, but it has its flaws, so I also try to supplement this with grammar lessons, and practice reading and writing in French.

I am specifically interested in French as it is spoken and used in Canada, because that's where I live. I kind of appreciate the Québécois accent. Will saying that get me shot? idk

Cantonese

I find that resources for Cantonese are hard to come by. My goal is to become relatively conversationally fluent, but I also wouldn't mind learning how to write. I found a book called 'Remembering Traditional Hanzi 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters' by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson that I'd like to go through.

• CantoneseClass101.com
• Ling Learn Languages
• Cantonese Vocab (cantonese.ca)

Persian

Ever since 11th grade, I've wanted to learn Persian. In Social Studies 20, I had the opportunity to study 19th and 20th century Iran over the course of a term with regards to nationalism (the theme of SS 20), and it fostered a deep curiosity and admiration for the Iranian culture and language.

Textbooks and Open Courses

I'm working through a few different textbooks and open courses at the moment!

Abstract Algebra

I'm (slowly!) reading Topics In Algebra (2nd ed.) by I. N. Herstein of the University of Chicago. It covers a lot of the topics that I'm interested in.

Chemistry

I'm hoping to take a few general chemistry courses during my undergrad, and if I take a liking to it, then I might consider doing a minor in chemistry. I'm not really sure yet.

Sometime, I'd like to take a look at 'Theory of Simple Liquids' (2005, 3rd ed. [or the 4th ed. if I can find it!]), by J. P. Hansen, and I. R. McDonald.

Crystallography

I think that there's some intersection between group theory (math) and crystallography (natural sciences) that I would love to investigate sometime. The study of minimal surfaces and metal crystals is also of particular interest to me.

Fortran

Started learning it for the bit, found out it's actually still used for some scientific computing because it's pretty efficient; we'll see where this goes.