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Investigating Student Understanding for a Statistical Analysis of Two Thermally Interacting Solids 
  
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M. Loverude, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 213-216.
As part of an ongoing research and curriculum development project for upper-division courses in thermal physics, we have developed a sequence of tutorials in which students apply…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10453&DocID=1912
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
Understanding How Students Use Physical Ideas in Introductory Biology Courses 
  
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J. Watkins, K. Hall, E. Redish, and T. Cooke, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 333-336.
The University of Maryland (UMD) Biology Education and Physics Education Research Groups are investigating students’ views on the role of physics in introductory biology courses.…
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An investigation of student thinking regarding calorimetry, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics 
  
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This thesis constitutes an investigation into student understanding of concepts in thermal physics in an introductory calculus-based university physics course. Nearly 90% of students…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12337&DocID=3068
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Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part I: A macroscopic perspective 
  
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C. Kautz, P. Heron, M. Loverude, and L. McDermott, Am. J. Phys., 73 (11), 1055-1063 (2005).
Our findings from a long-term investigation indicate that many students cannot properly interpret or apply the ideal gas law after instruction in introductory physics and chemistry…
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Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part II: A microscopic perspective 
  
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C. Kautz, P. Heron, P. Shaffer, and L. McDermott, Am. J. Phys., 73 (11), 1064-1071 (2005).
Evidence from research indicates that many undergraduate science and engineering majors have seriously flawed microscopic models for the pressure and temperature in an ideal gas. In…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2060715
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Student ability to apply the concepts of work and energy to extended systems 
  
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B. Lindsey, P. Heron, and P. Shaffer, Am. J. Phys., 77 (11), 999-1009 (2009).
The authors discuss students' ability to apply the concepts of work and energy to situations in which the internal structure of a system cannot be ignored, that is, the system cannot…
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Elements of proximal formative assessment in learners' discourse about energy 
  
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B. Harrer, R. Scherr, M. Wittmann, H. Close, and B. Frank, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 203-206.
Proximal formative assessment, the just-in-time elicitation of students' ideas that informs ongoing instruction, is usually associated with the instructor in a formal classroom…
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Representations of partial derivatives in thermodynamics 
  
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J. Thompson, C. Manogue, D. Roundy, and D. Mountcastle, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 85-88.
One of the mathematical objects that students become familiar with in thermodynamics, often for the first time, is the partial derivative of a multivariable function. The symbolic…
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Evolution in students’ understanding of thermal physics with increasing complexity 
  
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E. Langbeheim, S. Safran, S. Livne, and E. Yerushalmi, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 9 (2), 020117 (2013).
We analyze the development in students’ understanding of fundamental principles in the context of learning a current interdisciplinary research topic—soft matter—that was adapted to…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020117
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