PhET Progress Report
March 27, 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 March 27-30 (Thursday through Sunday), with little or no email contact.
Platform-Issues
Special Relativity
· Literature search on existing sims that solve this problem
· Groups point out that Lorentz contraction is rarely seen alone, and indeed not the most striking phenomenon seen at relativistic speeds. Optical aberration introduces nonlinear effects.
· Initial 3D implementation of Lorentz contraction under JOGL and Xith3D scenegraph
· Decide whether we should handle optical aberrations
· Decide whether we should show textbook explanations for Lorentz contractions, or just show the simulation
· Make sure issues raised by JOGL are acceptable
Misc
· Met with John regarding piccolo/nuclear physics
· Discussed issues regarding PhetPCanvas, PLayer, coordinate transformations
· Greenhouse: Converted to new about dialog
· Deployed new translations
Upcoming Work
·
Please see
all my high priority issues in Unfuddle, mainly lasers and cck
·
Continue
investigation for special-relativity
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Literature
search and initial design of immunology sim?
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Sorting
out and prioritizing (non-cck) unfuddle issues
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Post new
Lasers and Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps after Archie interviews (may
also receive minor update requests)