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Melander, Emil; Haglund, Jesper; Weiszflog, Matthias; Andersson, Staffan – Physics Teacher, 2016
Educational research has found that students have challenges understanding thermal science. Undergraduate physics students have difficulties differentiating basic thermal concepts, such as heat, temperature, and internal energy. Engineering students have been found to have difficulties grasping surface emissivity as a thermal material property.…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Optics, Undergraduate Students, Physics

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