PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Sept 20, 2007

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Website

· Several misc bugfixes & performance improvements with John

Torque

· Latest Version

· Added (optional) “brake” and “net” series to force and torque charts

· Misc bugfixes

· Remaining Work

Screenshots

· All JNLP files referred to an online resource for the splash screen icon; this was a possible candidate for the problem Trish experienced.

· Icons can only be GIF or JPG

· All icons (splash screen and file application icon) have been removed until we decide what’s best here.

· Recorded and posted new animated screenshot for Wave Interference

Languages

· Removed bogus “Interlingue” translations

· correct version of translations will appear on re-deploy (e.g. CCK + Japanese is broken)

Misc

· CCK: reduced internal battery resistance by 4 or 5 orders of magnitude

· Server: discussion about phet web traffic and solutions

· States-of-matter: email discussion

· Build-script: minor fixes

Upcoming Work

· Rotation/Torque

· CCK for upcoming study

· Collaborate with John on States-Of-Matter

· Licensing issues/Meet with Kate Tallman

· GUI for translation system