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phetsims / pendulum-lab

"Pendulum Lab" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Can step size be a bit smaller? #122

Closed arouinfar closed 8 years ago

arouinfar commented 8 years ago

I've noticed that stepping forward in dev.6 is very coarse and feels a bit choppy. It was much smoother in dev.5 and allowed users to have more precise control. I'm guessing that performance optimization may have required the step size to become a bit coarser, but is there any way that it could be made a bit smaller @jonathanolson? The step forward button doesn't feel like a very useful feature in its current state.

Pausing the pendulum here (swinging to the left): image

Stepping forward 6x: imageimageimageimageimageimage

jonathanolson commented 8 years ago

Switched to the same time interval (50ms) for the step button.

arouinfar commented 8 years ago

Thanks @jonathanolson! That feels much better. Closing.