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"Circuit Construction Kit: Basics" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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User suggestion: Add motor/fan #510

Open arouinfar opened 7 years ago

arouinfar commented 7 years ago

Several users have requested the addition of a motor (or fan)

Unfuddle Ticket #1778

They have asked me to write and ask if you will consider adding different kinds of resistors other than the light bulb. Perhaps a fan, a radio, or something really "crackin", as they like to say. They also would like to see a cracked light bulb or light bulb with a broken wire so they can develop circuit demonstrations for their 1st grade Science Buddies. [They're so excited that they want to share their experiments with them too!] One of them wants to try to build a house with rooms that light up or control games, tvs, refrigerators. {By the way, I told him I'd ask you what he might think about majoring in for college. In his dire economic circumstances, you are a shining light in the darkness.}

Unfuddle Ticket #2525

I'm a physics teacher in France. I found out your simulation "circuit construction kit". It s nice to use it with my students. May I ask you if there is any way to add some components like a little motor? Can i do that by myself?

From phetsims/circuit-construction-kit-dc#3

I use Phet once in a while in my classroom and I was wondering if there is any way to add more components to the DC circuits. I am in automotive/Truck and Coach and would like different applications such as a fuse or circuit breaker, fans and different types of switches. Is this within the capabilities of the programmers or is this locked down to what we see is what we get? On the plus side, great simulators for showing basic circuit faults.

From phetsims/circuit-construction-kit-dc#21

I am a Professor at Conestoga College in Guelph, Ontario and currently teach Electrical/Electronics in our Truck and Coach programs. I wonder if you can tell me if you are looking at all at the following:

  1. Meter activities using a DMM
  2. Circuit simulations similar to a vehicle electrical system (ie starting circuit, lighting circuits (LED) etc)
  3. Adding more components to the simulator such as a fuse(very important) and perhaps a motor(DC,stepper etc) or something that can be customised for larger circuits
  4. ​Electronics components to simulate circuits such as 555 timer, regulators, diodes and rectifiers etc.
arouinfar commented 7 years ago

We haven't discussed this component yet during design meeting, but I don't believe it'll be a necessary feature in 1.0.

oliver-phet commented 5 years ago

Another request received into phethelp:

If possible, could you add a DC motor to the lab tab or the virtual lab (not sure what the difference is between them) of the DC construction kits? Being able to show how direction of current can matter - by making the motor rotate opposite directions - even if magnitude doesn't change, is a standard that we need to address when teaching circuits.

samreid commented 4 years ago

Deferring for current development because AC design doesn't call for motor/fan. @arouinfar correct me if this is wrong.