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Simulation framework to provide a virtual lab experience to teach research
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Can a micropipette draw in more liquid when it is already holding something? #84

Closed jcourt325 closed 1 month ago

jcourt325 commented 1 month ago

As of commit d7b90e9, if a pipette's plunger is pressed to the first stop to draw something in, while it has already picked up a substance, it does nothing. It will only draw in a substance if it is currently empty.

@jwtay1 or @ksnmoore, is this the way we should be modelling this?

If I remember correctly from real life, half pressing the button while it has a liquid sometimes spits a portion of that liquid out, before the full press flushes all of it out. Is that correct, and if so, should we try to model it?