PHY121
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 **
It enters the timing event number, the time at which the event happend and the interval between events. I really like this program!
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 101.3281 101.3281
2 101.5781 .25
3 101.8125 .234375
4 102.0781 .265625
5 102.3281 .25
6 102.5781 .25
7 102.8281 .25
8 103.0781 .25
9 103.3281 .25
10 103.5625 .234375
11 103.7969 .234375
12 104.0156 .21875
13 104.2188 .203125
14 104.4219 .203125
15 104.625 .203125
16 104.8125 .1875
17 104.9844 .171875
18 105.1875 .203125
19 105.375 .1875
20 105.6094 .234375
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.2140625
I simply added them together and dvivded by 20. Seemed the most straight forward to get the awnser to me.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.25,6
.234375,4
.265625,1
.21875,1
.203125,4
.1875,2
.171875,1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
No, it means it's just not as accurate as it could be.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
it counts in .01563 intervals.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
11.625
4.078125
4.96875
4.109375
4.953125
4.484375
4.87375
5.125
4.90625
5.328125
** Your general comment to this point: **
I liked the stop breathing crack. Humor helps
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
If you're watching yourself/timing yourself, you have a tendency to try to mimic the times, however, if you look away from the screen and just breathe (like I did) you will just breath at a normal rate, which varys.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
I'm going with awnser a, even though its closer to .015. The timer works with units of .01563 (as witnessed above), but I wouldn't consider it being accurate to .01 because of the .00562 after the .01 spot.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
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event number clock time time interval
1 11.625 11.625
2 15.70313 4.078125
3 20.67188 4.96875
4 24.78125 4.109375
5 29.73438 4.953125
6 34.21875 4.484375
7 39.0625 4.84375
8 44.1875 5.125
9 49.09375 4.90625
10 54.42188 5.328125
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20 min I think
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Very good answers and very good data throughout. You clearly understand this.