Open AccessQuelques reflexions sur le concept d'entropie issues d'un enseignement de thermodynamique
Author(s) -
Carole Brosseau,
Jean Viard
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
enseñanza de las ciencias/enseñanza de las ciencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2174-6486
pISSN - 0212-4521
DOI - 10.5565/rev/ensciencias.4645
Subject(s) - epistemology , interpretation (philosophy) , entropy (arrow of time) , humanities , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics , linguistics
The authors establish the existence of a gap between physics' students conceptions concerning the notion of entropy and Clausius's, Boltzmann's, constructors of this concept. They analyze some basic features at the origin of these conceptions and some characteristics of the common sense interpretation of entropy. They conclude by some didactical propositions.