Collaborative Research: Paradigms in Physics: Creating and Testing Materials to Facilitate Dissemination of the Energy and Entropy Module

合作研究：物理学范式：创建和测试材料以促进能量和熵模块的传播

• 批准号: 0837301
• 负责人: Michael Rogers
• 金额: $ 3.33万
• 依托单位: Ithaca College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-15 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837301&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Paradigms; Physics; Creating

Physics(13) Topics in statistical and thermal physics have long been problematic in the undergraduate curriculum. To many students, the subject matter is abstract and theoretical and often requires mathematical tools they lack. This project addresses the challenge of teaching upper-division thermal and statistical mechanics by building on the Energy and Entropy (E&E) paradigm developed through the Paradigms in Physics Project at Oregon State University and a physics education research project at the University of Maine. E&E takes a radically different approach to statistical mechanics, incorporating the issues of quantum mechanics and measurement at its core and focusing on entropy as the Principle of Least Bias. In the approach, thermodynamic systems are treated as large, i.e. macroscopic, quantum systems that are not perfectly isolated from the remainder of the universe. This external interaction has enormous consequences that when taken into account clarifies thermodynamics' substance, with thermal variables now understood as macroscopic quantum averages and thermal probabilities as macroscopic quantum probabilities. An entropy postulate then plays the ultimate and crucial role of match maker in this marriage. As part of the current project, E&E curricular materials are being further refined and the materials are being field tested at Oregon State University and at collaborator sites at Ithaca College and Pacific University, a detailed instructor's manual is being prepared, and an education research project is being conducted to examine the efficacy of the approach and materials in supporting student learning of these concepts in advanced courses.

在本科课程中，统计和热物理学的物理学（13）主题长期存在。 对于许多学生来说，主题是抽象的，理论上的，并且通常需要他们缺乏的数学工具。 该项目通过建立俄勒冈州立大学物理范式和缅因州大学物理教育研究项目开发的能量和熵（E＆E）范式来解决教学上限热和统计力学的挑战。 E＆E对统计力学采取了一种根本不同的方法，将量子力学和测量的问题纳入了其核心，并将侧重作为熵作为最少偏见的原理。 在这种方法中，热力学系统被视为大的，即与宇宙其余部分完全分离的宏观量子系统。 这种外部相互作用具有巨大的后果，当考虑到澄清热力学物质时，热变量现在将其理解为宏观量子平均值，而热概率为宏观量子概率。 然后，熵假设在这场婚姻中扮演了匹配者的终极和关键作用。 作为当前项目的一部分，正在进一步完善E＆E课程材料，并在俄勒冈州立大学和伊萨卡学院和太平洋大学的合作社进行了现场测试，正在准备一份详细的讲师手册，并正在准备一项教育研究项目，以研究支持这些概念的学生学习方法和材料的功效。