David Roundy, Tevian Dray, Mary Bridget Kustusch, Emily van Zee, and Corinne Manogue

• Conference website
• Abstract
• Workshop Paper

• Workshop Handout:
  • Ice Lab Handout
• Activities:
  • Ice Calorimetry Lab

• Workshop Handout:
  • Thermodynamics of a Rubber Band Handout
• Activities:
  • Rubber Band Lab
• Publication:
  • David Roundy, Michael Rogers, Exploring the Thermodynamics of a Rubber Band, American Journal of Physics, 81, 20–23 (2013) (Copyright Notice) (pdf) (html)

• Workshop Handout:
  • Name the Experiment Handout
• Activities:
  • Name the Experiment: Introduction
  • Name the Experiment: Changing Entropy
  • Name the Experiment: Maxwell Relations
  • Name the Experiment: More Maxwell Relations
• Publication:
  • David Roundy, Mary Bridget Kustusch, Corinne A. Manogue, Name the Experiment, American Journal of Physics, (to be published).
• Narratives:
  • Name the Experiment: Introduction
  • Name the Experiment: Changing Entropy

• Workshop Handout:
  • The Partial Derivative Machine Handout
• Description of the Partial Derivative Machine
• Activities:
  • Quantifying Change
  • Isowidth and Isoforce Stretchability
  • Easy and Hard Derivatives
  • Potential Energy of an Elastic System
• Publication:
  • Grant Sherer, Mary Bridget Kustusch, Corinne A. Manogue, and David Roundy, The Partial Derivative Machine, 2013 Physics Education Research Conference, Portland, OR (submitted).

• Workshop Handout:
  • Fun with Partial Derivatives Handout
• Publications:
  • The Bridge Book (our online textbook covering multivariable calculus)
    See especially the following draft sections:
    • Applications of Chain Rule
    • Chain Rule via Tree Diagrams
    • Rearranging Differentials
    • Examples from Thermodynamics
    • Things not to do with Differentials
  • Mary Bridget Kustusch, David Roundy, Tevian Dray, and Corinne A. Manogue, Partial Derivative Games in Thermodynamics: A Cognitive Task Analysis