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Addressing Student Difficulties with Statistical Mechanics: The Boltzmann Factor 
  
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T. Smith, J. Thompson, and D. Mountcastle, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 305-308.
As part of research into student understanding of topics related to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at the upper division, we have identified student difficulties in…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10485&DocID=1941
Identifying student difficulties with conflicting ideas in statistical mechanics 
  
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T. Smith, D. Mountcastle, and J. Thompson, PERC 2012 Proceedings, 386-389.
In statistical mechanics there are two quantities that directly relate to the probability that a system at a temperature fixed by a thermal reservoir has a particular energy. The…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12859&DocID=3391
They Still Remember What I Never Taught Them: Student Understanding of Entropy 
  
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M. Loverude, PERC 2012 Proceedings, 266-269.
As part of an ongoing project to examine student learning in upper-division courses in thermal and statistical physics, we have examined student reasoning about the approach of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12830&DocID=3363
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Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire 
  
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 17 (2), 020119 (2021).
Student learning in upper-division thermal physics has not been studied to the same extent as in other courses like electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Studies addressing…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020119
Comparing undergraduate and graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy questionnaire 
  
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, PERC 2021 Proceedings, 105-110.
In a prior study, we investigated graduate student reasoning on a set of entropy-related conceptual tasks in a think-aloud format. The tasks involved entropy from microscopic and…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15733&DocID=5467
Understanding combinatorics challenges in an upper-division thermodynamics course 
  
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K. Oliver and B. Wilcox, PERC 2021 Proceedings, 315-320.
Upper division thermodynamics courses require students to develop proficiency with several combinatorial topics. While little research has been done to establish student comfort and…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15770&DocID=5502
Investigating how graduate students connect microstates and macrostates with entropy 
  
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N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, PERC 2020 Proceedings, 98-103.
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…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15466&DocID=5314
Student understanding of basic probability concepts in an upper-division thermal physics course 
  
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M. Loverude, PERC 2009 Proceedings, 189-192.
As part of ongoing research on student understanding in upper-division thermal physics, we developed a number of simple diagnostic questions designed to probe understanding of basic…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9446&DocID=1320