Phy 231
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 **
I clicked the button 10 times and each time I click it, 2 different numbers appear to the right.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 257.5625 257.5625
2 257.6719 .109375
3 257.7813 .109375
4 257.9219 .140625
5 258.0313 .109375
6 258.1563 .125
7 258.2969 .140625
8 258.4063 .109375
9 258.5313 .125
10 258.6563 .125
11 258.7813 .125
12 258.9375 .15625
13 259.0469 .109375
14 259.1719 .125
15 259.3125 .140625
16 259.4375 .125
17 259.5781 .140625
18 259.6875 .109375
19 259.7969 .109375
20 259.9219 .125
21 260.0313 .109375
22 260.1406 .109375
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.1234375
I found the average by adding the first 20 times and dividing by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.109375, 8
.125, 7
.140625, 4
.15625, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I believe the TIMER program is based on how fast the computer can comprehend a click of the click to time event, there are several programs running on a computer at one time and these programs require memory space, that's why it takes more time to comprehend the clicks than other times. I'm really just guessing here.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
I see that the numbers are increasing then hit a peak and then go straight back down again. It does this several times. This data supports my reasoning about computer memory space.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
19.8125
16.32813
16.17188
17.15625
18.48438
19
20.46875
20.10938
22.3963
23.78125
** Your general comment to this point: **
My breathing was slowly becoming more relaxed and the time between my breaths kept increasing.
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
I was becoming more and more relaxed so my breathing rate changed. The human body is not very predictable but a computer is.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
b, within .01 second because that was where the discrepency in numbers began when we clicked the button as fast we could.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
1 257.5625 257.5625
2 257.6719 .109375
3 257.7813 .109375
4 257.9219 .140625
5 258.0313 .109375
6 258.1563 .125
7 258.2969 .140625
8 258.4063 .109375
9 258.5313 .125
10 258.6563 .125
11 258.7813 .125
12 258.9375 .15625
13 259.0469 .109375
14 259.1719 .125
15 259.3125 .140625
16 259.4375 .125
17 259.5781 .140625
18 259.6875 .109375
19 259.7969 .109375
20 259.9219 .125
21 260.0313 .109375
22 260.1406 .109375
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It took about 30m minutes to complete this assignment.
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The above data from my spreadsheet is not the data that I obtained doing the breathing exercise. I accidently exited out of the program and lost that data.
&#Very good work. Let me know if you have questions. &#