Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources step/objinfo/Polygon.html says: inertia: How difficult it is to change the polygon's rotation. This definition is misleading and wrong, because inertia is not only the resistance against rotation, but against any change in its state of motion. Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia: "Inertia is the resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion."
same definition error in Disk.html Box.html
The deffinition is correct, but the name is wrong. Actually it should be "moment of inertia" instead of "inertia". I can't remember why I've named it this way, but it should be renamed. Do you have any ideas for something shorter than momentOfInertia ?
> The deffinition is correct, but the name is wrong. Ups, than I translated it wrong in german :-( > Do you have any ideas for something shorter than momentOfInertia ? No, "Moment of Inertia" seems to be correct. Is the name also wrong in the gui? step_qt.pot #: rigidbody.cc:43 softbody.cc:51 msgctxt "PropertyName" msgid "inertia" msgstr ""
Yes, GUI should also be fixed. It's not easy to change the name in Step itself since it is also used in .step files - changing it will break all existing step experiments. The proper solution is versioning of .step files which is started but not fully implemented yet.
I have made the changes and i have send the patch to kde-edu mailing list.i have changed "inertia" to "rotationalInertia" The changes won't break the existing experiments as i have made the same changes in the .step files also. If there is any files other then what i have fixed, send those files to me. I will fix it
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