PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

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

· To-do’s here

· 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

· Email

· 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)