Assessing student understanding of partial derivatives in thermodynamics

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 818, Issue , 2006, Pages 77-80

  Thompson, John R ^a,b   Bucy, Brandon R ^a   Mountcastle, Donald B ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematics; Maxwell relations; Physics education research; Thermal physics; Upper level

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751235307     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2177027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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