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Direct linkLoverude, Michael – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
As part of an ongoing project to examine student learning in upper-division courses in thermal and statistical physics, we have examined student reasoning about entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. We have examined reasoning in terms of heat transfer, entropy maximization, and statistical treatments of multiplicity and probability. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Thermodynamics
