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Lo, William Chung Hei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Twenty nine students who had previously taken an undergraduate thermal physics course were interviewed about their basic knowledge about statistical mechanics at the undergraduate level. Of these 29, fourteen were undergraduate students, and fifteen were graduate students at varying stages of their career. This project aimed to identify and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mechanics (Physics), Thermodynamics, Statistics
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Ruiz, Michael J.; Cranford, Charles – Physics Education, 2020
In early January 2018, after days of subfreezing temperatures, a 20 m waterfall became mostly frozen with supercooled water pouring over the top of the frozen parts of the fall. A video was taken of the waterfalls and supercooled turbulent water flowing on the frozen surface as it turned into frazil ice right before our eyes. Frazil ice consists…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Water, Climate, Natural Resources