PhET Progress Report
Nov 8, 2007
An online version of this report is available here.
Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.
Meetings
Rotation
· Latest version is 1.03.44
· Changes to background to make it seem more like top-view
· Changed brake graphic to look more brake-like
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To-do’s here
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Also, fix
the linear acceleration vector to be non-central for constant angular
acceleration
Translation
·
Added locale-specific credits, to optionally
show translation author for the language in which the sim is running.
Translation Utility
· Discussion with Chris & Mike regarding Flash translation
· Added google translate API for testing
· Discussion of how sim flavor should be identified
Portuguese CCK
·
Fixes for CCK strings that weren’t yet
internationalized
Misc
· PhET Help
· OLPC
· Admin
Upcoming
· Rotation/Torque (see above to-do’s)
· CCK
o Organize requested fixes
o Bugfixes
o Some reorganizing
· Work on generalizing Rotation/Torque chart library to be useful in Moving Man, Force1D, Ramp (with Chris)
· Identify and implement a mechanism for adding translations without recompiling the simulation for Java sims (with Chris)