PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

3-21-2006

Work from this week:

o QWI Fixes from McKagan & Wendy's requests. Latest is:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/schrodinger/0.50/

o Fixes for Conductivity & Semiconductors.

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/conductivity/0.03/

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/semiconductors/0.03/

o Tab code (added documentation)

See how it looks on a Mac:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/tests/mac/qwi1.jpg

Upcoming Work:

1. What to do about 3-dopant case in semiconductors?

I estimate it will take about 1 week to add the remaining 3-dopant diodes NNP, NPP, PNN, PPN, either through explicit hand-coding or abstraction of a model that supports all 4). We may want to pursue an alternative, such as a drop-down menu for the 3-dopant case.

2. Add beam view to photoelectric effect in conductivity. (Priority?)

3. I am ready to start the Wave Interference simulation, but have delayed this due to QWI, semiconductors and conductivity.

4. Help Malley integrate the Time Independent Schrodinger solution into the Bound States project.