phetsims / acid-base-solutions

"Acid-Base Solutions" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/acid-base-solutions/latest/acid-base-solutions_en.html
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Concentration change redraws all reaction species #105

Closed learnthinkteach closed 10 years ago

learnthinkteach commented 10 years ago

When the concentration slider is used (or when the window is resized), all of the particles in solution in the Molecules View are redrawn. When increasing and decreasing concentration, this performance makes it difficult to tell which species are increasing / decreasing, and whether they are doing so equally. In the java version of the sim, using the Concentration slider adds molecules/ions one particle at a time, so illustrate that more are being reacted forward or backward in the reaction equation.

I understand if this is not possible / not worth the time to enable, but I wanted to have the suggestion on record for future improvements. The performance of the java sim (where additional particles appear/disappear) is more pedagogically useful, I think, because it is clear what is happening to the number of particles.

pixelzoom commented 10 years ago

This is my bad, I forgot about this aspect of the 'Molecules' view. It can (and should) be addressed in ~2 hours. It will be a very isolated change, so will not affect other features in the sim.

emily-phet commented 10 years ago

@pixelzoom - I agree with Julia, this is significant and worth the effort to fix.

pixelzoom commented 10 years ago

Work completed, fix appears in http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/html/acid-base-solutions/1.0.0-dev.9/acid-base-solutions_en.html