This dissertation is intended to be used by high school teachers and contains a set of concepts that leads to the understanding of entropy and its applications in the classroom. It begins with the definition of thermodynamics, through the study of the first and second law, showing the relevance of choice of the thermodynamic system, the nature of its boundaries, the variables of the thermodynamic transformations, ending with Carnot cycle and the reversibility and irreversibility concepts. The ideas of microstates and macrostates is introduced with the use of models easy to be used in the classroom, enabling the students to obtain quantitative results for disorder and therefore for entropy. The increase of entropy is associated with irr...
summary:We overview the notion of entropy in thermodynamics. We start from the smooth case using dif...
This is an undergraduate textbook in thermodynamics—the science of heat, work, temperature, and entr...
In a recently developed simple particle mechanics model in which a single particle represents the wo...
In this article we discuss a teaching learning sequence on basic thermodynamics, spanning the first ...
Thermodynamics, and in particular entropy, has been found to be challenging for students, not least ...
Striving to explore the subject in as simple a manner as possible, this book helps readers understan...
Entropy is a concept with an extreme controversy which many scientists have been trying to explain. ...
Regarding thermodynamics, the perception of students is that unlike the first law, the second law h...
This is an Open Educational Resource designed to summarise key concepts in thermodynamics that are r...
Abstract-This paper summarises a study of students' perceptions of the thermodynamic property e...
As well as many other people, we have felt, both as students and as teachers, that some traditional ...
The present work is part of a broader academic master’s research, whose objective is to analyze the ...
We discuss how to construct a direct and experientially natural path to entropy as a extensive quant...
Energy transformations teaching at secondary school, generally relate to conservation and transferen...
We report on several specific student difficulties regarding the second law of thermodynamics in the...
summary:We overview the notion of entropy in thermodynamics. We start from the smooth case using dif...
This is an undergraduate textbook in thermodynamics—the science of heat, work, temperature, and entr...
In a recently developed simple particle mechanics model in which a single particle represents the wo...
In this article we discuss a teaching learning sequence on basic thermodynamics, spanning the first ...
Thermodynamics, and in particular entropy, has been found to be challenging for students, not least ...
Striving to explore the subject in as simple a manner as possible, this book helps readers understan...
Entropy is a concept with an extreme controversy which many scientists have been trying to explain. ...
Regarding thermodynamics, the perception of students is that unlike the first law, the second law h...
This is an Open Educational Resource designed to summarise key concepts in thermodynamics that are r...
Abstract-This paper summarises a study of students' perceptions of the thermodynamic property e...
As well as many other people, we have felt, both as students and as teachers, that some traditional ...
The present work is part of a broader academic master’s research, whose objective is to analyze the ...
We discuss how to construct a direct and experientially natural path to entropy as a extensive quant...
Energy transformations teaching at secondary school, generally relate to conservation and transferen...
We report on several specific student difficulties regarding the second law of thermodynamics in the...
summary:We overview the notion of entropy in thermodynamics. We start from the smooth case using dif...
This is an undergraduate textbook in thermodynamics—the science of heat, work, temperature, and entr...
In a recently developed simple particle mechanics model in which a single particle represents the wo...