Student interpretations of equations related to the first law of thermodynamics

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 750-755

  Hadfield, Linda C ^a   Wieman, Carl E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical education research; Mathematics symbolic mathematics; Misconceptions discrepant events; Physical chemistry; Student career counseling; Thermodynamics; Upper division undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955869533     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed1001625     Document Type: Article

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