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1. Addressing Student Difficulties with Concepts Related to Entropy, Heat Engines and the Carnot Cycle [ Conference Proceedings ]

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Authors:: Smith, Trevor I.; Christensen, Warren M.; Thompson, John
Main Level:: Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Second and Third Law / Carnot Cycle; Heat / Second and Third Law / Heat Engines; Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions; Education Foundations / Assessment; Education Practices / Instructional Material Design / Tutorial

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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…

http://www.compadre.org/STP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9446&DocID=1320

3. A new statement of the second law of thermodynamics

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Author:: Macdonald, Alan
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Second and Third Law / Entropy; Heat / Second and Third Law

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A. Macdonald, Am. J. Phys., 63 (12), 1122-1127 (1995).

A new statement of the second law of thermodynamics is given. The law leads almost effortlessly, for very general closed systems, to a definition of absolute entropy S, a…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.18018

4. A thermodynamic derivative means an experiment

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Author:: Styer, Dan
Main Level:: Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / General; Heat / Second and Third Law

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D. Styer, Am. J. Phys., 67 (12), 1094-1095 (1999).

All too often, courses in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics barrage their students with numerous equations that are left unexamined and uninvestigated. This note explains how…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.19088

5. Student Estimates of Probability and Uncertainty in Advanced Laboratory and Statistical Physics Courses [ Conference Proceedings ]

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Authors:: Mountcastle, Donald; Bucy, Brandon; Thompson, John
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Probability; General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Probability and Statistics; General Physics / Physics Education Research; Heat / General; Education Practices / Pedagogy

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Equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems are highly predictable as n, the number of particles approaches and exceeds Avogadro's number; theories of statistical physics depend on…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820919

6. What Is Entropy? Advanced Undergraduate Performance Comparing Ideal Gas Processes [ Conference Proceedings ]

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Authors:: Bucy, Brandon; Thompson, John; Mountcastle, Donald
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Second and Third Law / Entropy; General Physics / Physics Education Research; Heat / Models / Ideal Gas; Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions; Education Foundations / Cognition

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We report data on upper-level student understanding of entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics when comparing the isothermal and free expansions of an ideal gas. Data from pre-…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2177028

7. Assessing Student Understanding of Partial Derivatives in Thermodynamics [ Conference Proceedings ]

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Authors:: Thompson, John; Bucy, Brandon; Mountcastle, Donald
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: General Physics / Physics Education Research; General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Differential Equations; Other Sciences / Mathematics; Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions; Education Foundations / Cognition

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We are engaged in a research project to study teaching and learning in upper-level thermal physics courses. We have begun to explore student functional understanding of mathematical…

http://www.compadre.org/STP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8925&DocID=1781

8. Teaching Statistical Physics by Thinking about Models and Algorithms

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Authors:: Tobochnik, Jan; Gould, Harvey
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Models; General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Probability and Statistics; Heat / Kinetics and Dynamics / Approach to Equilibrium; Heat / Ensembles; Heat / Ensembles / Density of States

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J. Tobochnik and H. Gould, Am. J. Phys., 76 (4&5), 353-359 (2008).

This article discusses several ways of illustrating fundamental concepts in statistical and thermal physics by considering various models and algorithms. We emphasize the importance…

http://www.compadre.org/STP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7647&DocID=620

9. Understanding the Temperature and the Chemical Potential using Computer Simulations

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Authors:: Tobochnik, Jan; Gould, Harvey; Machta, Jonathan
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: Heat / Ensembles / Chemical Potential; Heat / Thermal Properties of Matter / Temperature; Heat / Ensembles

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J. Tobochnik, H. Gould, and J. Machta, Am. J. Phys., 73 (8), 708-716 (2005).

This paper discusses several Monte Carlo algorithms and applications that are useful for understanding the concepts of temperature and chemical potential. We then introduce a…

http://www.compadre.org/STP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7644&DocID=619

10. STP Eclipse Workspace [ Computer Program ]

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Authors:: Tobochnik, Jan; Gould, Harvey
Main Level:: Upper Undergraduate
Subjects:: General Physics / Computational Physics; Heat / General

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The STP Eclipse Workspace contains a ready to use Eclipse workspace with source code for Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) programs by Jan Tobochnik and Harvey Gould. Unzip this…

http://www.compadre.org/STP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7455&DocID=554

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