most citedIdentifying Student Difficulties with Entropy, Heat Engines, and the Carnot Cycle

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Identifying Student Difficulties with Entropy, Heat Engines, and the Carnot Cycle

Trevor I. Smith, Warren M. Christensen, Donald B. Mountcastle +1

We report on several specific student difficulties regarding the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the context of heat engines within upper-division undergraduates thermal physics co…