PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

May 31, 2007

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Energy Skate Park

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/energy-skate-park/2.01.06/

· About 12 changes, from Keller’s reports (see change list above)

· Added an “interview.jnlp” launch file, to select startup options

· Upcoming discussion about record/playback with Wendy & Team

· Near completion of this draft

Rotation

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/rotation/0.00.11/

· Added vectors to play area

· Abstraction to support torque ( & energy) applications

· Fixes for graph cursor

· Should the angle & angular velocity reflect that of the platform or the object?

· Much of the remaining work here has to do with the record/playback and graphs. Aside from record/playback and graphs, I’m ready for some high-level coarse-grained feedback on this simulation.

Time Series

· Collaborated with John to start improving timeseries & motion subprojects.

· We’ll continue with this in the upcoming weeks.

Standardize

· Updated resource & string management for 4 more simulations.

Source Distribution

· Discussion with Chris, John and phet team about a downloadable, buildable source distribution of phet.

Upcoming Work

· Rotation/Torque (with John)

1. Time Series

2. Charts

3. Motion

· Energy Skate Park

· GUI for translation system