Your work on timer program 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
0 - 10 in the first column then numbers in the ninties after that and around .35s in the 3rd column
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 39.35938 39.35938
2 39.46875 .109375
3 39.60938 .140625
4 39.875 .265625
5 40.26563 .390625
6 40.39063 .125
7 40.53125 .140625
8 40.70313 .171875
9 40.85938 .15625
10 40.96875 .109375
11 41.09375 .125
12 41.28125 .1875
13 41.40625 .125
14 41.54688 .140625
15 41.70313 .15625
16 41.79688 .09375
17 41.85938 .0625
18 41.96875 .109375
19 42.125 .15625
20 42.26563 .140625
21 42.42188 .15625
22 42.57813 .15625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.15327
I just added all the numbers together and divided by 21 since there isn't an interval for the first number
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.0625
0.09375
0.109375, 3
0.125, 3
0.140625, 4
0.15625, 4
0.171875
0.1875
0.265625
0.390625
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
It might be as fast as the program can process the clicks, so it reports those numbers, while you might actually be moving faster. It's not useless or flawed its still fairly accurate.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
the program can only process at a certain speed, its limited by the efficiency in its programming to how fast it can run
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
1.9375
2.71875
2.796875
2.90625
2.625
2.875
2.59375
3.0625
3.015625
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
the button wasn't being clicked so fast that the program was moving at the fastest possible speed so it was able to report the numbers with more accuracy
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
A. the closest it seems the program can get is .015 and since it can't measure down to .01 the most accurate answer is .1
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
time interval
1280.656
1.9375
2.71875
2.796875
2.90625
2.625
2.875
2.59375
3.0625
3.015625
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