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Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and D. Zollman
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This resource illustrates the construction of wave packet states from the superposition of plane waves. The user can add together different amplitudes of waves in either momentum or…
  
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Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and D. Zollman
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This resource illustrates double slit interference patterns of 2D wave fronts. The waves from two point sources are shown propagating outward, with interference fringes shown on a…
  
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T. Wan, P. Emigh, G. Passante, and P. Shaffer
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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…
  
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M. Wittmann
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This presentation contains the results of a research study on misconceptions students have concerning wave mechanics which represent an obstacle to learning quantum mechanics.…
  
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M. Wittmann and J. Morgan
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This web site provides small-group learning materials for teaching wave physics and modern physics to non-science-majors. To match student skills, observation, qualitative analysis,…
  
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Physics Education Research Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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This website contains two complete sets of course material: one for an algebra-based introductory physics course and another for a calculus-based sequence. The sequences contain…
  
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K. Forinash and W. Christian
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This is a collection of interactive tutorials on the fundamentals of waves. The tutorials emphasize concepts that are not usually easy to illustrate in textbooks. Java applets are…
  
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Publisher: PhET
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This webpage contains an interactive simulation that allows users to study Fourier series expansions of waves. The amplitude of up to 11 harmonics may be selected for a wave in one…
  
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Publisher: PhET
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This interactive simulation allows users to explore the properties of waves. Wave sources and mediums are provided for water, sound, and light so users can compare the behavior of…
Transfer of Learning in Quantum Mechanics  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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C. Singh
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C. Singh, PERC 2004 Proceedings, 23-26.
We investigate the difficulties that undergraduate students in quantum mechanics courses have in transferring learning from previous courses or within the same course from one…