Chemistry Calculator: How to Use Your Calculator for Chemistry

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Knowing how to use your calculator for chemistry will make chemistry

  • faster

  • easier

  • help you get the grade you want!

You need one of these, because your professor probably wont let you use your phone calculator app on exams.

You need one of these, because your professor probably wont let you use your phone calculator app on exams.

Your chemistry calculator is your friend!

Most schools have a check-out system for scientific calculators. Or you can find a used one on ebay.

1. Scientific notation and your chemistry calculator.

How can you put 6.02x10 23 in your calculator?

Your calculator has an [EE] or an [EXP] key. This key may be a main key, or it may be assigned as a second function to another key. Therefore, into you calculator you would perform one of the following keystrokes:

  • 6.02 [EE] 23

  • or

  • 6.02 [2nd] [EE] 23

2. Dimensional analysis and your chemistry calculator.

dimensional analysis problem

Using your calculator for chemistry, perform the following keystrokes:

  • 2.2 [÷] 10000 [÷] 13.6 [÷] 1000

3. Exponents of 10 and your chemistry calculator.

How do you enter 10 3 into your chemistry calculator?

  • 3 [10x]

Practice will help. Use your scientific calculator for chemistry every day until you can input equations without hesitation.

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Here is a video showing our Joy Lab Chemistry Professor doing a dimensional analysis problem while explaining how to use a scientific calculator for chemistry.

For only $14, you can download your own guidebook on how to use a scientific calculator for chemistry!

This eBook is designed to help you through the obstacles of using your chemistry calculator to solve chemistry problems.

  • 9 chapters

  • complete guide to how to use a scientific calculator for chemistry problems you will encounter in first year chemistry

  • each chapter has practice problems and answers

  • problem sets for you to get faster and more accurate using your calculator for chemistry

  • increase speed and accuracy on exams

  • bonus - the professor has a sense of humor!

Yes, chemistry is hard. Click on the photo for an article that may inspire you. Both young and old can succeed in chemistry!

You can teach yourself chemistry!

You can teach yourself chemistry!

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