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
1 21.39063 21.39063
2 21.59375 .203125
3 21.8125 .21875
4 22.0625 .25
5 22.28125 .21875
6 22.53125 .25
7 22.78125 .25
8 23.01563 .234375
9 23.25 .234375
10 23.46875 .21875
This is what I see. The number of repititions on the left and time in seconds between them.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 134.2969 134.2969
2 134.4375 .140625
3 134.5938 .15625
4 134.7344 .140625
5 134.8594 .125
6 135.0156 .15625
7 135.1563 .140625
8 135.2813 .125
9 135.4219 .140625
10 135.5469 .125
11 135.6719 .125
12 135.8281 .15625
13 135.9531 .125
14 136.0938 .140625
15 136.2656 .171875
16 136.4063 .140625
17 136.5156 .109375
18 136.6719 .15625
19 136.7969 .125
20 136.9219 .125
21 137.0781 .15625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.13
I added up the first 20 intervals and divided by 20 to get the average.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.10, 1
.12, 7
.14, 6
.15, 5
.17, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
There may be glitches in the prgram; nothing is perfect. The program is flawed, but only slightly. It is not useless though!
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
Some are positive and some are negative. There is a small glitch in the program.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
3.96875
3.859375
3.515625
3.9375
3.640625
4.58
4.109375
4.15625
3.28125
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
Each breath is different, not as consistant as fast clicking. More time for error and differences.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
a. The TIMER program is capable of determining the time between two events accurately to within about .1 second.
B/C the other choices don't leave much time for error.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
I have the Timer Won't file; I'll need to copy and paste into a spreadsheet.
1 1084.234 1084.234
2 1088.203 3.96875
3 1092.063 3.859375
4 1095.578 3.515625
5 1099.516 3.9375
6 1103.156 3.640625
7 1107.656 4.5
8 1111.766 4.109375
9 1115.922 4.15625
10 1119.203 3.28125
I have it saved in Excel.
30 minutes
Good work.