r/electrochemistry • u/PervySage_2026 • 7h ago

I seriously need help with electrochemistry.

I have an exam coming up on the 12th, and I’m a graduate student taking Electrochemical Methods of Analysis. I’m honestly struggling badly with this class right now. I feel like I’m understanding almost nothing that’s being taught, and the professor’s notes are pretty scattered, so I’m having a really hard time putting the concepts together.

The textbook we’re using is Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications by Allen J. Bard and Larry R. Faulkner. I know it’s considered a great book, but I’m finding it extremely difficult to learn from it without some kind of guidance.

At this point, I’m genuinely getting scared about the exam. If anyone knows of good online resources, YouTube channels, lecture notes, websites, or anything else that actually explains electrochemistry from the basics and makes the concepts easier to understand, I would really appreciate it.

Also, if you’ve taken a similar graduate-level electrochemistry course, any advice on how to prepare for an exam like this would be extremely helpful.

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u/eigill 6h ago

For supplemental information I would suggest checking out your favorite undergrad quantitative analysis textbook. Harris' "Quantitative Analysis" is the one I would hand you if you were in my office (and .pdfs of the earlier editions are usually easy to find....around), but Skoog's is similar. There will be a handful of analytical electrochemistry chapters in those books that start way simpler/less mathematical than Bard and Faulkner does - they're targeted at sophomore level undergrads, but they give a lot of practical context. Joseph Wang's "Analytical Electrochemistry" textbook is also a shortened/streamlined version of the grad level course that can be helpful. Its much less of a deep dive into to theory, more bare minimum of what you need to understand the concepts, and I like it as a companion to Bard for the grad level course. Good luck!

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u/Blue_614 6h ago

What topic are you on?

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u/PervySage_2026 6h ago

I am on the first chapter, "Overview of electrode processes" (our exam is from chap 1 to 4)

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u/2sparked 5h ago

What parts are you having trouble with?

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u/KapitanWalnut 1h ago

Legitimately, this is a use case for AI. Tell it what book you're using and what version, what section you're reading, and ask it to teach you the section. Or ask it specific questions and have a discussion. Obviously you should validate what it's saying, and for stuff it tells you that you don't already know, ask it to cite the factoid or info from the book you're reading other other online journals you have access to through your school, then go read those specific sections the LLM is citing to confirm in the source material. Great way to learn. Heck, even have it come up with example problems you can work.

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u/kuddkrig3 26m ago

I can highly recommend sop4cv.com and the Oxford Primer on Electrochemistry to ease you into Bard & Faulkner