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Sensemaking Throughout the Physics Curriculum: Understanding Expert and Student Ideas About Sensemaking in a Physics Context

Creator:: Lenz, MacKenzie
Abstract:: Physics sensemaking is a growing topic of study within the physics education community. Many lenses have been used to study sensemaking but few have considered how time and instruction can impact student sensemaking practices and ideas. In this dissertation, I present four studies that address four major questions: What sensemaking...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: concept in a new way, are examples of sensemaking. Sensemaking has been studied within the physics

Supporting Learning and Thinking with Multiple Representations in Upper Division Physics Courses

Creator:: Alfson, Jonathan W.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on June 9, 2023. Title: Supporting

Coordinatization Activated: How Students Understand and Apply Coordinate-Independent Integral Equations to Physics Situations

Creator:: Mulder, Gregory S.
Abstract:: Physics problems that require integration, such as finding the center of mass of an object or finding the electric field from a continuous distribution of charge, are one type of problem that is difficult for introductory physics students to solve. These problems require students to define a coordinate system in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: APPROACH WITH MODERN PHYSICS, 4th, ©2017. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York

Process Physics, Strategies and Economics in Metal Additive Manufacturing and Digital Microstructural Control for Energy and Chemical Process Components

Creator:: Manoharan, Sriram
Abstract:: Advances in plant construction within the energy and chemical process industries require inexpensive process intensification (PI) technology as a means to reduce plant size for enabling modular construction. One form of PI is microchannel process technology where arrays of microchannels, having hydraulic diameters on the order of 0.1 to 1...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: CGM. In Chapter 4, the process physics at the interface of an Inconel 625 – GRCop-42 bi-metallic

DUNE and MINERvA Flux Studies and a Measurement of the CCQE Charged-Current Quasielastic Anti-neutrino Scattering Cross Section with <E_{\nu}>~ 6 GeV on a CH Target

Creator:: Bashyal, Amit
Abstract:: One of the biggest open questions in physics is the prevalence of matter over anti-matter in the present universe. One of possible answers lies in the violation of charge and parity symmetry in the lepton sector that would favor matter over anti-matter so that the universe becomes dominated by matter...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on February 9, 2021 Title: DUNE and MINERvA Flux

Morphodynamics of 3D Migrating Cancer Cells

Creator:: Eddy, Christopher Z.
Abstract:: At the intersection of basic science research and clinical relevance, cancer metastasis and cell invasion is a multifaceted problem that has been investigated for the past several decades. Importantly, cancer cell plasticity, the ability of a single cell to change its phenotype without genetic mutations in response to environmental cues,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on September 2, 2021. Title: Morphodynamics

Application and Validation of Geant4 Modeling for Optimization of Complex Structures for Fast Neutron Detection

Creator:: Capps, Jacob W.
Abstract:: Fast neutron detection is important to the detection of illicit nuclear materials and can help prevent those materials from being used or transported without discovery. Previous research has shown that Heavy Oxide Inorganic Scintillator crystals can be used to detect fast neutrons by capitalizing on their high inelastic scattering cross...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on 01 June 2022 Title: Application and

Photostability of organic semiconductors : from bulk to nanoscales

Creator:: Quist, Nicole Arianne
Abstract:: Organic semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in low-cost, solution-processable (opto)electronic devices. An important class of high-performance organic semiconductors is pentacene derivatives, which exhibit high charger carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors and ultrafast singlet fission in photovoltaic devices. These derivatives have served as benchmark materials for systematic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on December 9, 2021. Title

Electronic and Optical Properties of Defects in Amorphous Oxide and Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors

Creator:: Vogt, Kyle
Abstract:: The optical and electronic properties of amorphous oxide thin films depend crucially on chemical composition, and deposition process variations which give rise to sub-gap defect states. Consequently, there is a need for a reliable, high-throughput method to extract sub-gap defect densities of states in amorphous oxide thin films. We present...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on February 12, 2020. Title

New Techniques to Monitor and Characterize Landslide Behavior and Controls Using Digital Terrain Models

Creator:: Senogles, Andrew
Abstract:: Coastal landslides and erosion are major natural hazards resulting in unstable slopes, constituting immense challenges to modern infrastructure. Developing, maintaining, and performing risk assessments of infrastructure on, or close to, these hazards require a detailed understanding of the geophysical processes destabilizing the slope. These efforts start with the collection of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: processes of slope deformation through three fundamental contributions. First, a new automated method to

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Sensemaking Throughout the Physics Curriculum: Understanding Expert and Student Ideas About Sensemaking in a Physics Context

Supporting Learning and Thinking with Multiple Representations in Upper Division Physics Courses

Coordinatization Activated: How Students Understand and Apply Coordinate-Independent Integral Equations to Physics Situations

Process Physics, Strategies and Economics in Metal Additive Manufacturing and Digital Microstructural Control for Energy and Chemical Process Components

DUNE and MINERvA Flux Studies and a Measurement of the CCQE Charged-Current Quasielastic Anti-neutrino Scattering Cross Section with <E_{\nu}>~ 6 GeV on a CH Target

Morphodynamics of 3D Migrating Cancer Cells

Application and Validation of Geant4 Modeling for Optimization of Complex Structures for Fast Neutron Detection

Photostability of organic semiconductors : from bulk to nanoscales

Electronic and Optical Properties of Defects in Amorphous Oxide and Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors

New Techniques to Monitor and Characterize Landslide Behavior and Controls Using Digital Terrain Models

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