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“Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles
Quantum mechanics can seem like a departure from everyday experience of the physical world, but constructivist theories assert that learners build new ideas from their existing ones. To explore how students can navigate this tension, we examine video of a focus group completing a tutorial about the "particle in a box." In reasoning about the properties of a quantum particle, the students bring in elements of a classical particle ontology, evidenced by students' language and gestures. This reasoning, however, is modulated by metacognitive moments when the group explicitly considers whether classical intuitions apply to the quantum system. The students find some cases where they can usefully apply classical ideas to quantum physics, and others where they explicitly contrast classical and quantum mechanics. Negotiating this boundary with metacognitive awareness is part of the process of building quantum intuitions. Our data suggest that (some) students bring productive intellectual resources to this negotiation.
Physics Education Research Conference 2015
Part of the PER Conference series College Park, MD: July 29-30, 2015 Pages 111-114
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=13848">Dreyfus, B, E. Sohr, A. Gupta, and A. Elby. "“Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, July 29-30, 2015.</a>
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B. Dreyfus, E. Sohr, A. Gupta, and A. Elby, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13848&DocID=4266).
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B. Dreyfus, E. Sohr, A. Gupta, and A. Elby, “Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13848&DocID=4266>.
APA Format
Dreyfus, B., Sohr, E., Gupta, A., & Elby, A. (2015, July 29-30). “Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13848&DocID=4266
Chicago Format
Dreyfus, B, E. Sohr, A. Gupta, and A. Elby. "“Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, July 29-30, 2015. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13848&DocID=4266 (accessed 11 October 2024).
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Dreyfus, Benjamin, Erin Ronayne Sohr, Ayush Gupta, and Andrew Elby. "“Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles." Physics Education Research Conference 2015. College Park, MD: 2015. 111-114 of PER Conference. 11 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13848&DocID=4266>.
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Author = "Benjamin Dreyfus and Erin Ronayne Sohr and Ayush Gupta and Andrew Elby",
Title = {“Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2015},
Pages = {111-114},
Address = {College Park, MD},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 29-30},
Year = {2015}
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