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Peer reviewedSichau, Christian – Science and Education, 2000
Teaching thermodynamics to undergraduate students is reduced to mere mathematical treatment of Gedankenexperimente based on two abstract fundamental postulates of thermodynamics. Attempts to remedy deficiencies of such courses with aims of taking the historical context into consideration in order to illustrate the importance of socioeconomical…
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Science History
