PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

March 13, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

I’ll be out of the office Thursday March 27 and Friday March 28.

Platform-Issues

Meetings

· Met with John and Chris regarding phet codebase

· Met with John regarding piccolo/nuclear physics

· Continue to collaborate with John intermittently

CCK

· Converted all outstanding issues into Unfuddle tickets.

· Kathy and Wendy should prioritize these tickets and decide what should be done now.

Discharge-Lamps

· Relabeled ground state to 1

· Internal project name needs to be changed, and matched on the website.

· Can this be re-deployed on the main site?

Lasers

· Changed probability distribution for transitions

· Made speed editable

· Choose new speed values.

· Possibly make speeds dynamically settable, with speed slider control

· Can this be re-deployed on the main site?

Misc

· Looked at new sim ideas

· Deployed submitted translations

· Discussed report generation with Unfuddle

Upcoming Work

· Rotation/Torque—Priority of bugs reported by Archie?

· Moving Man—Add “draw-in-graph to create” function.

See also Unfuddle for detailed remaining work.