This web site is designed to support the effective teaching of statistical and thermal physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It includes simulations of the properties of standard systems and models used in...

This website contains information about Stirling Engines, including how they operate, their history, and how they are designed. Examples are given, along with references to other information. All the sections of the...

This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, shares the results of a short diagnostic quiz has been administered over the past two years in the calculus-based introductory physics course at...

This web site provides users with visual tools for learning topics taught in a typical engineering thermodynamics class. Animations, interactive simulations, practical problems with online solutions, and illustrated...

This lesson builds upon the previous one (Newton's Second Law) by introducing students to kinetic and potential energy. Topics include a brief description of these two forms of energy, a discussion of gravity as a form...