2 papers
quant-ph2023
Casimir force in discrete scalar fields I: 1D and 2D cases
Eduardo Flores, Christian Ireland, Nabil Jamhour +3
We calculate the Casimir force between parallel plates for a massless scalar field. When adding the energy of normal modes, we avoid infinities by using a discrete spacetime lattic…
physics.ed-ph2019
Using psychometric tools as a window into students' quantitative reasoning in introductory physics
Trevor I. Smith, Philip Eaton, Suzanne White Brahmia +6
The Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL), a reasoning inventory under development, aims to assess students' physics quantitative literacy at the introductory level. Th…