PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

December 22, 2009

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

Translation Utility

· Discussed adding multi-string file support to translation editor #2033

Energy Skate Park

· Discussed #2041 pull down menu issues

· Removed console output #2044

· To Do:

o #2042 speed degrades after resetting

Unfuddle Notifier

· #2016 Worked with JB to get the Unfuddle notifier working over CU’s account

CCK:

· To Do:

o #2045 Change resistance dialog unreadable

o #2040 Bugs while changing resistance

o #1909 Asymmetric capacitors during charging with r=0

o #1839 High frequency oscillation when r=0

o #2039 Scroll bar on control panel

o #1911 Charts cover up non contact ammeter

o #1828 Electrons bunch up in pairs

o Meet with mike on these issues

Motion series

· To Do

1. Thirteen issues remaining in to-do document

1. How to handle sim name change? See #1948

1. We should probably fix translation utility to support strings located elsewhere.

2. Internal cleanup and refactoring for motion-series

3. Proposed solution for new versions of ramp & forces-1d & moving man:

4. Update Forces-1d with a dialog that points to the new version, ramp too

5. Ramp needs a new name #2054

6. Moving Man

Phetcommon

· To Do:

1. More improvements of PlayArea # 1907

Eating & Exercise

· To Do

1. Port motion-series controls to Java

2. Avoiding work on E&E during code freeze

3. Noah: What is the probability we will want to use temporal charts in this sim, possibly in the future?

4. Implement changes as per Noah’s mock-up (see email)

Piccolo

· To Do

1. #1821 update piccolo

1. Sims need re-testing with recent pswing changes

2. PSwing needs improvements for removing components, #1874

1. Any other fixes we want in before 1.3 release?