PhET Progress Report
July 19, 2007
An online version of this report is available here.
Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.
Rotation
· Posted 17 new revisions, click here for latest version
· Circular Regression for determining acceleration (has quirks in some cases)
· Synchronous rendering seems to give better performance on this sim
· Click here for the comprehensive change list
Versions
· Fixed version numbers for many sims
· Added version information readouts to sim statistics output
· Reposted all sims here
CCK
· Fixed Save/Load
· Needs to be thoroughly tested before AAPT
· Discuss dropping the previous main-site version and replacing with DC-Only version of latest build
Greenhouse
· Performance improvements
Optical Tweezers
· Meet with Tom to launch problems
· Discussed precision error problems with Chris
Look and Feel
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Discussed settable look and feel with Chris
Misc
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Gray rectangle problem solved in java 1.6 update
2 (nontrivial fix, won’t be backported)
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Fixed Save/Load in QWI and CCK
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Received request to translate to Arabic
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Reorganized code for Motion in 2D sim
Upcoming Work
· Rotation/Torque for AAPT(see above)
· Should I work on these bug reports for gas properties and reactions & rates?
· Simulations for offline-use
· build/deploy/test all simulations for the main site?
o What is our status on testing all sims?
o Any sims that will be better off with old version?
o Sims should be briefly retested before posting on main site.
· Licensing issues/Meet with Kate Tallman
· GUI for translation system
· CCK
