Transition from High school to University

Hello /sci/

I am about to transition from high school to university and would like some reading that would help me prepare for a first year engineering or general sciences course.

Preferably chemistry or physics since I am missing a few courses in those subjects but they will let me squeak by because of my marks.

Any suggestions welcome, just not SICP.
(If you were going to suggest that get back to /prog/)

Chemical engineering fag here.

>>7
GRE math subject is basically SAT math all over again. Meaning, boring shit is boring. Took the test in November, easy as shit. I'm not familiar with Putnam, but that's essentially the US college equivalent of the HS Math Olympiad. Not required.

>>5
If you mean the AP Calc AB was the "worst test ever" in terms of being difficult, then expect to be screwed if you do engineering or math in college. AP exams are easy as hell (think about it: roughly a 65% will give you a score of 5).

If you mean "worst ever" in terms of being required by your goddamned school to buy a useless graphing calculator, then yeah, shitsux.

>>1
Zumdahl's Chemistry texts are some of the most popular ones out there (I'm not implying they're good). At least in the US. I'm judging from your use of "marks," that you're not from the US.

For math, it would help to know up through Calc BC (basic differentiation/integration). I've taken math courses up through partial differential equations, but for engineering, a basic knowledge of ODEs will suffice. I used Zill's text for this during hs: http://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Differential-Equations-Classic/dp/0534373887/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241667086&sr=8-4

I could list some other chemistry and chemical engineering texts I've used if you're interested.