Student (Mis)application of partial differentiation to material properties

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 883, Issue , 2007, Pages 157-160

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

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Isothermal compressibility; Material properties; Mathematics; Maxwell relations; Partial differentiation; Physics education research; Thermal expansivity; Thermal physics; Upper level

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958007998     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2508716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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