phy201
Your 'timer program' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
** Your General Comment **
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
times and the intevals between the times beside of them.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 16.32031 16.32031
2 16.4375 .1171875
3 16.59375 .15625
4 16.70313 .109375
5 16.84375 .140625
6 16.97656 .1328125
7 17.10938 .1328125
8 17.26563 .15625
9 17.39844 .1328125
10 17.53906 .140625
11 17.67969 .140625
12 17.82813 .1484375
13 17.97656 .1484375
14 18.11719 .140625
15 18.26563 .1484375
16 18.41406 .1484375
17 18.5625 .1484375
18 18.71094 .1484375
19 18.875 .1640625
20 19.03125 .15625
21 19.17969 .1484375
22 19.33594 .15625
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.13515625
I added them up and devided by the amount.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.1171875,1
.15625,4
.109375,1
.140625,1
.1328125,3
.140625,3
.1484375,7
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
no it has a certain error from time to time but it is predictable as opposed to an unpredictible human error.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
The amount of error posible.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
14.98438
17.46094
19.07031
20.54688
22.32031
24.15625
25.55469
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
the error occurs in the thousands of secondsin the later we are just in seconds.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
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** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
event number clock time time interval
1 14.98438 14.98438
2 17.46094 2.476563
3 19.07031 1.609375
4 20.54688 1.476563
5 22.32031 1.773438
6 24.15625 1.835938
7 25.55469 1.398438
8 27.99219 2.4375
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