Identifying student difficulties with entropy, heat engines, and the Carnot cycle
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Upper Division Physics Courses.] We report on several specific student difficulties regarding the second law of thermodynamics in the context of heat engines within upper-division undergraduate thermal physics courses. Data come from ungraded written...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.11.020116 |