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 **
I'm sorry this is so late. If you are unable to give me a grade for this assignment, I understand.
No problem. I'll give you credit at any time, as long as assignments are in by the time I have to turn in grades at the end of the semester.
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
I see a lot of numbers with several decimal places that get larger as I click.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 25.11719 25.11719
2 25.27734 .1601563
3 25.42578 .1484375
4 25.59766 .171875
5 25.78906 .1914063
6 25.98828 .1992188
7 26.14844 .1601563
8 26.32031 .171875
9 26.50781 .1875
10 26.69922 .1914063
11 26.89063 .1914063
12 27.07813 .1875
13 27.28125 .203125
14 27.5 .21875
15 27.67969 .1796875
16 27.87109 .1914063
17 28.0625 .1914063
18 28.30078 .2382813
19 28.55078 .25
20 28.74219 .1914063
21 28.99219 .25
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
0.18667
I added the first 20 intervals then divided by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.117, 1
.160, 2
.148, 1
.171, 2
.191, 6
.199, 1
.186, 2
.203, 1
.219, 1
.179, 1
.238, 1
.25, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think it may be flawed, but not useless.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
I see a lot of .01563 and several .03125 which is approximately .01563 doubled. I am not able to clearly see what this means about the timer, but I assume it means that the timer is not made to work in such fast intervals.
Good. .01563 is 1/64 of a second. The timer works in increments of 1/64 second.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
6.46875
5.847656
4.886719
4.957031
5.058594
5.078125
5.195313
5.230469
4.40625
** Your general comment to this point: **
Apparently I breathe a lot faster than you do.
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because the intervals are farther apart.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
I say B because it just seems like a more logical answer than anything any faster.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
I do not have a spreadsheet program available at this time, but I will do this as soon as possible.
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30 minutes
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Very good work.