Create query parameters to load example circuits

[arouinfar]

@ariel-phet proposed this over Slack:

I was wondering for CCK would it be feasible to have a couple of query parameters to support loading a few useful circuits. For instance, not have the ability to save circuits but something like ?series to default load a series circuit? I would imagine there is a somewhat manageable list of circuits that teachers want to build and demo regularly, if we collected that list could we just have a small set of such query parameters to help support teachers better?

I love this idea, and I think it would be a really great alternative to the save/load functionality we had in Java.

Tagging for design meeting and the next publication milestone since we should decide if this feature is within the scope of the next release.

[arouinfar]

11/30/22 meeting with @arouinfar @samreid @matthew-blackman

• A query parameter to load a simple circuit is likely simple from a technical perspective
• Would the query parameter allow customization of the number/value of the resistors?
• If the goal is compare parallel vs. series circuits, why don't we create a screen with these two scenes?
• @matthew-blackman used save/load functionality for more complicated circuits when he was teaching
• @samreid recommends decoupling from the PhET-iO release.
• A more robust long-term solution is to solve the save/load issue, and this is more of a workaround.

Untagging for the PhET-iO publication milestone.

[samreid]

In today's discussion, @arouinfar @matthew-blackman and I discussed a good way forward may be to leverage the PhET-iO save/load functionality.