STATUS AND SCHEDULE FOR ZOOM PhysicsVectors PACKAGE Current release: 3- and 4-vectors, including rotations and boosts on them; relativistic kinematics, Rotation objects. Partial set of tutuorial examples. Being completed: LorentzBoost and LorentzTransformation objects. Estimated time to release -- 1 week Will be done next: * ZM_PhysVec_LinAlg.h bridging to the LinearAlgebra package. 5/15 * "Convenience header with short syntaxes e.g. v1*R*v2 5/20 * ZM_CLHEP_Vector.h for compatability with code using CLHEP HepVector 5/25 Each class in CLHEP will be DERIVED from classes in ZMpv and any extras will be provided. * Completion of tutorial examples set. 5/30 * PlaneVector class 6/5 * Split of the .cc files into small really-basic stuff and the rest 6/15 so that users only doing trivial things don't pull in a big object file Tentative further intentions (subject to de-prioritizing): EB Vector (2 Weeks) Float4 (rather than Float8) versions (2 weeks) Version built on error-correlated numbers (6-9 weeks) (includes error-correlated numbers package) Affine transformations (1-3 weeks) Performance optimizations (2-4 weeks) Possibilities not intended: Geometry3D - TangentVector, Point, Line, Plane, EuclideanTransformation, ... (12 weeks) Frobenius norms for Rotation and LT (1 week) 2-Norm calculation for Rotation (.5 week) 2-Norm for LorentzTransformation (1.5 weeks) Mechanisms for user to supply results if infinite vectors would otherwise be returned (2 weeks) Cayley-Klien parameters for rotations (1 week)