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In an effort to examine students’ understanding about the structure of boundary conditions in upper-division courses, think-aloud interviews were conducted in the context of both…
E. Stump, C. White, G. Passante, and N. Holmes, PERC 2020 Proceedings, 527-532.
Measurement uncertainty and experimental error are important concepts taught in undergraduate physics laboratories. Although student ideas about error and uncertainty in introductory…
A. Kohnle, A. Jackson, and M. Paetkau, Phys. Teach., 57 (3) (2019).
Learning introductory quantum physics is challenging, in part due to the different paradigms in classical mechanics and quantum physics. Classical mechanics is deterministic in that…
T. Wan, P. Emigh, G. Passante, and P. Shaffer, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 380-383.
Time dependence is an important concept in quantum mechanics that has been shown to be difficult for many students. In trying to understand the problems that students encounter, the…
B. Schermerhorn, A. Villasenor, D. Agunos, H. Sadaghiani, G. Passante, and S. Pollock, PERC 2019 Proceedings, 530-534.
One of the purported benefits of teaching a spins-first approach to quantum mechanics is that it allows students to build up quantum mechanical ideas and learn postulates before…