Selected Publications

Most Current Professional Biosketch

 

Affiliations:

            OSU Physics Education Research Group

            OSU Center for Cognitive Science.

 

Research Interests:

Physics Education and Cognitive Science:

            - Cognitive origins of misconceptions

            - Learning and the transfer of learning

            - Abstract and concrete representations

            - Hierarchy of physics knowledge

            - Role of diagrams in learning/problem solving

 

Cosmology/Particle Astrophysics  (I am not currently active in this area)

            - Phase Transitions in the very early Universe

            - Emergent radiation spectrum from evaporating Black Holes

            - Properties of plasmas in the early universe and astrophysical objects

Some of the papers that I have written on these subjects (at times in collaboration with others) can be found in the Astrophysics Archive under my name, or here.

 

Andrew F. Heckler

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

Ohio State University

191 West Woodruff Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1117

 

heckler@mps.ohio-state.edu

Phone: 614-688-3048

Fax: 614-292-7557