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

 

 

 

 

 

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.