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Title: Student Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
Url: https://watermark.silverchair.com/885_1_online.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE4...
Creator: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers
University of Pittsburgh
Description: We investigate the difficulties of advanced undergraduate students toward the end of a full year upper-level quantum mechanics course with concepts related to quantum measurements and time development. Our analysis is based upon a test administered to 89 students from six universities and interviews with 9 students. Strikingly, most students shared the same difficulties despite variations in background, teaching styles, and textbooks. Concepts related to stationary states, eigenstates, and time dependence of expectation values were found to be particularly difficult. An analysis of written tests and interviews suggests that widespread misconceptions originate from an inability to discriminate between related concepts and a tendency to overgeneralize.
LC Classification: Science -- Physics -- Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter -- Quantum theory. Quantum mechanics
Science -- Physics -- Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter -- Quantum theory. Quantum mechanics -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Science -- Physics -- Study and teaching. Research
GEM Subject: Science -- Physics
Science -- Instructional issues
Key Concept: Physics -- Quantum mechanics
Resource Type: Reference Material
Instructional Material
Format: Document -- PDF
Document -- HTML
Audience: Educator
Learner
Professional/Practitioner
Education Level: High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education
Language: English
Rights: American Association of Physics Teachers
Access Rights: Free access
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