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"Capacitor Lab: Basics" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Add Top Plate Charge and Stored Energy graphs to Capacitance screen #225

Closed arouinfar closed 4 years ago

arouinfar commented 6 years ago

@jonathanolson can you update the Bar Graph option on Capacitance so that it is identical to the Bar Graphs option on Light Bulb? The default configuration would be the same on both screens.

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In pilot interviews Tanja observed that students find the light bulb very engaging and spend a lot of time interacting with it. This, of course, is not necessarily a bad thing, but it may distract some learners from interacting with the capacitor while it is disconnected. Learning goals related to stored energy and what happens as the capacitance is changed (while disconnected) could be better supported in an environment without the light bulb.

Originally, the motivation for leaving top plate charge and stored energy off of the Capacitance screen was so that the sim would be more accessible to younger learners. However, I do not think these graphs would do any harm to or disenfranchise younger students, particularly because they would be off by default. I also like the added flexibility that their availability would provide.

Given that Tanja is still in the pilot testing stage, it would be nice if this change could be made sooner rather than later, so I'm marking this as high priority.

jonathanolson commented 6 years ago

Should be implemented. Can you check master?

arouinfar commented 6 years ago

Looks great, thanks @jonathanolson! Can you publish a new dev version for Tanja?

jonathanolson commented 6 years ago

Available here: https://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/html/capacitor-lab-basics/1.7.0-dev.1/phet/capacitor-lab-basics_en_phet.html

arouinfar commented 6 years ago

@jonathanolson I just realized the checkbox on the Capacitance screen still reads "Bar Graph", but it should be made plural. Can you fix the string and republish?

samreid commented 6 years ago

Not sure if I picked up these changes for the RC, @jonathanolson can you take a look?

https://github.com/phetsims/QA/issues/86

Also, if I understand correctly, the "data visualization" study will be limited to ?screens=2 so we can show a click heatmap easily.

kathy-phet commented 6 years ago

@samreid - We changed our mind re which screen to use since students were getting too distracted by the lightbulb. So we will use screens=1, instead, with this addition.

samreid commented 6 years ago

As far as I can tell, it looks like this fix made it into 1.6.1 aside from the string pluralization.

jonathanolson commented 6 years ago

Just checked, this is in 1.6.1.

jonathanolson commented 6 years ago

@jonathanolson I just realized the checkbox on the Capacitance screen still reads "Bar Graph", but it should be made plural. Can you fix the string and republish?

Will do, I'll need to coordinate with @samreid for publishing.

phet-steele commented 6 years ago

This is all working.

arouinfar commented 6 years ago

Reopening with status:fixed-awaiting-deploy for #237.

arouinfar commented 4 years ago

Not sure when it happened, but this behavior is present in latest. Closing.