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Ontological metaphors for negative energy in an interdisciplinary context
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Benjamin D. Geller, Julia Gouvea +3
Teaching about energy in interdisciplinary settings that emphasize coherence among physics, chemistry, and biology leads to a more central role for chemical bond energy. We argue t…
Entropy and spontaneity in an introductory physics course for life science students
Benjamin D. Geller, Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Julia Gouvea +3
In an Introductory Physics for Life Science (IPLS) course that leverages authentic biological examples, student ideas about entropy as "disorder" or "chaos" come into contact with…
NEXUS/Physics: An interdisciplinary repurposing of physics for biologists
E. F. Redish, C. Bauer, K. L. Carleton +15
In response to increasing calls for the reform of the undergraduate science curriculum for life science majors and pre-medical students (Bio2010, Scientific Foundations for Future…
Chemical energy in an introductory physics course for the life sciences
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Julia Gouvea, Benjamin D. Geller +3
Energy is a complex idea that cuts across scientific disciplines. For life science students, an approach to energy that incorporates chemical bonds and chemical reactions is better…
Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Benjamin D. Geller, Julia Gouvea +3
Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances. The concept of…