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| - This small group activity is designed to help upper-division undergraduate students learn to read $pV$ and $TS$ plots and to understand simple cyclic processes. | - This small group activity is designed to help upper-division undergraduate students learn to read $pV$ and $TS$ plots and to understand simple cyclic processes. | ||
| - Students work out the heat and work for each leg of a cycle, as well as the totals for the cycle. | - Students work out the heat and work for each leg of a cycle, as well as the totals for the cycle. | ||
| - | - The wrap-up discussion highlights student difficulties witht eh sign of heat and work, and reinforces the concept of heat and work being path-independent. | + | - The wrap-up discussion highlights student difficulties with the sign of heat and work, and reinforces the concept of heat and work being path-independent. |
