timer program

Phy 121

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 **

as the number on the left increases, the number on the right decreases

** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **

1 85.37891 85.37891

2 85.56641 .1875

3 85.73828 .171875

4 85.94141 .203125

5 86.11328 .171875

6 86.29688 .1835938

7 86.5 .203125

8 86.6875 .1875

9 86.89063 .203125

10 87.0625 .171875

11 87.28125 .21875

12 87.46875 .1875

13 87.67188 .203125

14 87.84375 .171875

15 88.07813 .234375

16 88.28125 .203125

17 88.5 .21875

18 88.6875 .1875

19 88.91797 .2304688

20 89.15234 .234375

** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **

0.188672

i added up all the intervals then divided by 20

** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **

.171875, 4

.1835938, 1

.1875, 4

.203125, 5

.21875, 2

.2304688, 1

.234375, 2

** Your general comment to this point **

** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **

it might have had some sort of pattern, no its not useless

** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **

there is a pattern in the program

** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **

2.089844

3.070313

3.214844

3.261719

3.308594

3.382813

3.464844

3.542969

** Your general comment to this point: **

** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **

because the timing isnt that close

** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **

a. because the slower you hit the timer, the better and more accurate it will be.

** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **

beginning of inhalation

event number clock time time interval

1 7688.699 7688.699

2 7690.789 2.089844

3 7694.332 3.542969

4 7697.547 3.214844

5 7700.93 3.382813

6 7704.191 3.261719

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30 minutes

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