Productivity of “collisions generate heat” for reconciling an energy model with mechanistic reasoning: A case study
We observe teachers in professional development courses about energy constructing mechanistic accounts of energy transformations. We analyze a case in which teachers investigating adiabatic compression develop a model of the transformation of kinetic energy to thermal energy. Among their ideas is th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.11.010111 |