Project: Calorimetry Simulator

Directions

• Open Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and create a new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0).
• Select File > Save.
  • Name your file "cal_xxx.fla"...where xxx = first initial, middle initial, last initial
    (ex. cal_tjf.fla)
  • Save the file to your network folder.
• Create the simulator by following the directions in the movie tutorials.
• Save often!
• Due Friday!

Teacher/Student Examples

• Teacher Example
• Student Example 1: Aluminum
• Student Example 2: Zinc

Tutorial Movies

• Tutorial 00: Introduction
• Tutorial 01: Setting up the Components
• Tutorial 02: Setting up the Textfields
• Tutorial 03: Creating the Calorimeter and Water Movieclips
• Tutorial 04: Creating the Metal Movieclip
• Tutorial 05: Creating the Temp Probe Movieclip
• Tutorial 06: Creating the Multimeter Movieclip
• Tutorial 07: Connecting the Probe to the Multimeter
• Tutorial 08: Fixing the Reference Points for the Metal and Water
• Tutorial 09: Setting Instance Names for the Movieclips
• Tutorial 10: Import Statements and Min and Max Values
• Tutorial 11: Set Default Slider Properties
• Tutorial 12: Event Listeners for Sliders
• Tutorial 13: Event Handlers for Sliders
• Tutorial 14: Testing What We Have
• Tutorial 15: Controlling Metal Scale with Slider
• Tutorial 16: Controlling Water Height with Slider
• Tutorial 17: Setting up Variables to Hold Initial Values
• Tutorial 18: Setting Initial Stage Display
• Tutorial 19: Planning Default Button Behaviors
• Tutorial 20: Creating Default Button Behaviors
• Tutorial 21: Controlling User Interface through Buttons
• Tutorial 22: Calculating the Final Temperature
• Tutorial 23: Animating the Final Temperature
• Tutorial 24: Coding the animateFinalTemp Function
• Tutorial 25: Creating the Timer for animateFinalTemp
• Tutorial 26: Tweaking the animateFinalTemp Function
• **Tutorial 27: Using the formatDecimals Function
  

Actionscript Code

• ActionScript for Tutorials 10 - 14
• ActionScript through Tutorial 22
• ActionScript through Tutorial 27