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This is an online physics course on thermodynamics designed for elementary and middle school teachers. The course covers temperature, thermal properties, energy, and irreversibility.…
  
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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…
  
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Boltzmann's Statistics model performs successive simulations of an isolated assembly of vibrating molecules modeled as quantum harmonic…
STP Chaos JS Simulation  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) JavaScript Chaos program is a ready-to-run computer model for the teaching of statistical and thermal physics. In this program we initialize…
  
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The purpose of the application is to depict the evolution of a 2D toward its equilibrium state and test experimentally the Boltzmann H-theorem. In the sim-window the user can see the…
  
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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…
  
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The Osmosis in 2D Gas JavaScript Model shows a hard disk gas in a container with a semi-permeable barrier in which N particles are moving. The particles are discriminated into two…
  
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The Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) JavaScript programs are read-to-run computer models and curricular materials for the teaching of statistical and thermal physics. The goal…
  
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M. Vignal, C. Manogue, D. Roundy, and E. Gire
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M. Vignal, C. Manogue, D. Roundy, and E. Gire, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 404-407.
One commonly and persistently difficult topic in thermodynamics is the relationship between the different thermodynamic potentials obtained through Legendre transformations. The…
  
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M. Vignal, R. Siegel, P. Emigh, and E. Gire, PERC 2018 Proceedings.
Thermodynamic potentials (or free energies) are different energies that can describe the same system using different sets of independent variables. While the flexibility to consider…
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