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Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy
As a first step in a larger study of student reasoning in upper-division thermal physics, we conducted thinkaloud interviews with 8 physics graduate students to probe their understanding of entropy. In this paper, we'll discuss results from a question which presented students with a novel system--a string in a bath of water--and asked students to rank the probabilities of particular arrangements of the string, define macrostates of the system, and discuss specifically what is meant by the entropy of the system. Exploring graduate students' understanding of entropy and their ability to solve problems and reason with entropic arguments will provide insights into how physicists develop a mature understanding of entropy as a physical quantity. We find a tendency for graduate students to project properties of macrostates onto constituent microstates, and discuss other observations. We identify connections to previous research and lay out the next steps for this project.
Physics Education Research Conference 2020
Part of the PER Conference series Virtual Conference: July 22-23, 2020 Pages 98-103
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=15466">Crossette, N, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox. "Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020.</a>
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, 2020, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314).
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, 2020, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314>.
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Crossette, N., Vignal, M., & Wilcox, B. (2020, July 22-23). Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314
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Crossette, N, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox. "Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314 (accessed 14 December 2024).
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Crossette, Nathan, Michael Vignal, and Bethany Wilcox. "Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy." Physics Education Research Conference 2020. Virtual Conference: 2020. 98-103 of PER Conference. 14 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314>.
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Author = "Nathan Crossette and Michael Vignal and Bethany Wilcox",
Title = {Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2020},
Pages = {98-103},
Address = {Virtual Conference},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 22-23},
Year = {2020}
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