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Squishability of Water Vapor

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Highlights of the activity

  1. This small group activity is designed to elicit student reasoning about thermodynamic derivatives and experimental design.
  2. Students work in small groups to estimate a particular partial derivative with two different variables held constant, then design experiments to measure this partial derivative.
  3. The whole class wrap-up discussion emphasizes thinking about independent, dependent, controlled, and fixed variables.

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Reflections

Instructor's Guide

eesurfsquishguide.pdf

Student Handouts

eesurfsquishhand.pdf


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