Fostering a Coordinated Teaching of the Experimental Sciences: Introduce Entropy and Chemical Potential from the Beginning!

Balmer Prize 2022

Abstract

Using a conceptual framework based a) on a model where energy is the regulating agent and b) on the introduction of conjugated intensive and extensive quantities, together with the introduction from the beginning of the concepts of entropy and chemical potential allows to coherently model a variety of situations relating to didactically interesting examples referring to different disciplines.