Phy202
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 29.65625 29.65625
2 32.03125 2.375
3 32.60938 .578125
4 33.01563 .40625
5 33.40625 .390625
6 33.82813 .421875
7 34.1875 .359375
8 34.51563 .328125
9 34.89063 .375
10 35.29688 .40625
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 84.3125 84.3125
2 84.48438 .171875
3 84.65625 .171875
4 84.82813 .171875
5 85.01563 .1875
6 85.20313 .1875
7 85.375 .171875
8 85.5625 .1875
9 85.75 .1875
10 85.92188 .171875
11 86.09375 .171875
12 86.28125 .1875
13 86.46875 .1875
14 86.65625 .1875
15 86.82813 .171875
16 87.01563 .1875
17 87.20313 .1875
18 87.39063 .1875
19 87.59375 .203125
20 87.76563 .171875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
0.172656
I added all of the numbers up and divded by 20...there were a lot of similiar answers so it was not hard
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.171875, 8
.1875, 10
.203125,1
** Your general comment to this point **
This makes sense.
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
No it gives an accurately close reading and rounds up to a similiar reading.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
There is a pattern that the timer program follows right after the next interval that is similiar to the time between clicks.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
1 601.7656 601.7656
2 603.6094 1.84375
3 606.0469 2.4375
4 607.8906 1.84375
5 609.7969 1.90625
6 611.8594 2.0625
7 613.9219 2.0625
8 615.6875 1.765625
9 617.8281 2.140625
10 619.8906 2.0625
** Your general comment to this point: **
603.6094
606.0469
607.8906
609.7969
611.8594
613.9219
615.6875
617.8281
619.8906
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
The time intervals were farther apart and my breaths were not exactly as well planned out as just clicking on the mouse as fast as I could.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
The timer seems to round up to the thousandths table which would make answer C be the more accurate statement.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
series of regular breaths time at beginning of inhalation
event number clock time time interval
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About 30 min.
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Very good work. I'm glad to get the program to behave properly.