PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

July 23, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Eating & Exercise 0.00.60

• Improved model for muscle mass gained from exercise
• Internationalized new strings
• Added feature for estimating body fat percent based on http://www.halls.md/bmi/fat.htm
• Normalized model for heart strain/strength/health
• Changed heart attack model to use new heart strain/strength, not former model

Translations

• Post JAR for testing, should show English translation only independent of machine configuration
  
• Configured machine to use Japanese locale, couldn't reproduce reported problem
• See: Unfuddle #202 and #658

Blackbody Radiation

• Rebuilt and deployed working version to tigercat

Misc

• Posted papers on tigercat website for Wendy, and Trish.
  

Upcoming Work

Fitness Simulation

Improvements for CCK

Discuss translation & deployment of Flash sims, with Mike & Chris & Dano