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Student Evaluative Sensemaking on Homework in Intermediate Mechanics

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Hahn, Kelby T.

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Physicists seek to understand the world and often use mathematics to aid in attaining that goal. Thus when doing mathematics they often interrogate their results in order to ensure that they align with their expectations and to gain new insight into how the world works. This seeking of coherence between...

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Masters Thesis

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kelby T. Hahn for the degree of
Students' Understanding of Discrete and Continuous Systems in Quantum Mechanics and Computation's Supporting Role

Creator:

Solorio, Christian D.

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Quantum mechanics is increasingly being taught with a spins-first approach where instructors use simple spin systems to introduce the principles of quantum mechanics rather than systems with wavefunctions. One of the defining characteristics of a spins-first approach is that systems studied have discrete bases, whereas systems with wavefunctions have continuous...

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Dissertation

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the kinetic energy operator T̂ using a finite-difference approximation. 1.3 Research Context 1.3.1
Supporting Learning and Thinking with Multiple Representations in Upper Division Physics Courses

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Alfson, Jonathan W.

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Physicists solve problems and communicate their work using many external representations, such as equations, words, diagrams, graphs, sketches, pictures, and more. To learn physics, then, students must learn to use external representations. In this dissertation, I present three manuscripts. Each manuscript discusses how upper-division Paradigms in Physics students use multiple...

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Dissertation

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height of the purple (blue) surface represents U as a function of S and V (p and T ) and includes