Evolution in students’ understanding of thermal physics with increasing complexity

We analyze the development in students’ understanding of fundamental principles in the context of learning a current interdisciplinary research topic—soft matter—that was adapted to the level of high school students. The topic was introduced in a program for interested 11th grade high school student...

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Main Authors: Elon Langbeheim, Samuel A. Safran, Shelly Livne, Edit Yerushalmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-11-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020117