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Creator:: Zwolak, Justyna P. and Manogue, Corinne A.
Abstract:: [This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Upper Division Physics Courses.] Standardized assessment tests that allow researchers to compare the performance of students under various curricula are highly desirable. There are several research-based conceptual tests that serve as instruments to assess and identify students' difficulties in lower-division courses....
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Full Text:: Electromagnetism Physical Optics JUSTYNA P. ZWOLAK AND CORINNE A. MANOGUE PHYS. REV. ST PHYS. EDUC. RES 11, 020125

Creator:: Manogue, Corinne A., Copeland, Ed, and Dray, Tevian
Abstract:: Anderson and DeWitt considered the quantization of a massless scalar field in a spacetime whose spacelike hypersurfaces change topology and concluded that the topology change gives rise to infinite particle and energy production. We show here that their calculations are insufficient and that their propagation rule is unphysical. However, our...
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Creator:: Roundy, David, Kustusch, Mary Bridget, and Manogue, Corinne
Abstract:: We introduce a series of activities to help students understand the partial derivatives that arise in thermodynamics. Students construct thought experiments that would allow them to measure given partial derivatives. These activities are constructed with a number of learning goals in mind, beginning with helping students to learn to think...
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Full Text:: Kustusch, David Roundy, Tevian Dray, and Corinne Manogue, “An expert path through a thermo maze,” AIP Conf

Creator:: Kustusch, Mary Bridget, Roundy, David, Dray, Tevian, and Manogue, Corinne
Abstract:: Several studies in recent years have demonstrated that upper-division students struggle with partial derivatives and the complicated chain rules ubiquitous in thermodynamics. We asked several experts (primarily faculty who teach thermodynamics) to solve a challenging and novel thermodynamics problem in order to understand how they navigate through this maze. What...
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Full Text:: , David Roundy, Tevian Dray and Corinne Manogue Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis

Creator:: Kustusch, Mary Bridget, Roundy, David, Dray, Tevian, and Manogue, Corinne A.
Abstract:: Several studies in recent years have demonstrated that upper-division students struggle with the mathematics of thermodynamics. This paper presents a task analysis based on several expert attempts to solve a challenging mathematics problem in thermodynamics. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we highlight the importance of cognitive task...
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Full Text:: , Tevian Dray, and Corinne A. Manogue Department of Physics, Oregon State University, 301 Weniger Hall

Creator:: Dray, Tevian, Manogue, Corinne A., and Tucker, Robin W.
Abstract:: We consider the (massless) scalar field on a two-dimensional manifold with metric that changes signature from Lorentzian to Euclidean. Requiring a conserved momentum in the spatially homogeneous case leads to a particular choice of propagation rule. The resulting mix of positive and negative frequencies depends only on the total (conformal)...
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Full Text:: Physical Society 2588 TEVIAN DRAY, CORINNE A. MANOGUE, AND ROBIN W. TUCKER 0= V n (CO C —~IIB 4) dg

Creator:: Davies, Paul C. W., Dray, Tevian, and Manogue, Corinne A.
Abstract:: We derive conditions for rotating particle detectors to respond in a variety of bounded spacetimes and compare the results with the folklore that particle detectors do not respond in the vacuum state appropriate to their motion. Applications involving possible violations of the second law of thermodynamics are briefly addressed.
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Full Text:: and Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Corinne A. Manogue

Creator:: Schray, Jörg, Dray, Tevian, Manogue, Corinne A., Tucker, Robin W., and Wang, Charles
Abstract:: We examine some of the subtleties inherent in formulating a theory of spinors on a manifold with a smooth degenerate metric. We concentrate on the case where the metric is singular on a hypersurface that partitions the manifold into Lorentzian and Euclidean domains. We introduce the notion of a complex...
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Full Text:: degenerate metrics J6rg Schray,a) Tevian Dray,b) Corinne A. Manogue,c) Robin W. Tucker,d) and Charles Wang,e

Creator:: Roundy, David, Weber, Eric, Dray, Tevian, Bajracharya, Rabindra R., Dorko, Allison, Smith, Emily M., and Manogue, Corinne A.
Abstract:: [This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Upper Division Physics Courses.] Partial derivatives are used in a variety of different ways within physics. Thermodynamics, in particular, uses partial derivatives in ways that students often find especially confusing. We are at the beginning of a study of the teaching...
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Full Text:: Weber,† Tevian Dray,‡ Rabindra R. Bajracharya,§ Allison Dorko,∥ Emily M. Smith,¶ and Corinne A. Manogue

Creator:: Thomas, Andrew C., Strub, P. Ted, Weatherbee, Ryan A., and James, Corinne
Abstract:: Concurrent satellite-measured chlorophyll (CHL), sea surface temperature (SST), sea level anomaly (SLA) and model-derived wind vectors from the 13+ year SeaWiFS period September 1997 – December 2010 quantify time and space patterns of phytoplankton variability and its links to physical forcing in the Pacific Ocean. The CHL fields are a...
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Full Text:: indices Andrew C. Thomas1, P. Ted Strub2, Ryan Weatherbee1 and Corinne James2 1. School of Marine

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