Addressing student difficulties with concepts related to entropy, heat engines and the Carnot cycle

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1179, Issue , 2009, Pages 277-280

  Smith, Trevor I ^a   Christensen, Warren M ^b   Thompson, John R ^a,b  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnot cycle; Efficiency; Heat engines; Physics education research; Thermal physics; Tutorial; Upper level

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749103420     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3266735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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