phy 201
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 **
There are three columns, one labeled 1-10 and then 2 others (I am guessing they are the start and stop time of the 10 trials)
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 93.84375 93.84375
2 94.03516 .1914063
3 94.25 .2148438
4 94.52734 .2773438
5 94.77734 .25
6 94.99609 .21875
7 95.23438 .2382813
8 95.46484 .2304688
9 95.66797 .203125
10 95.88281 .2148438
11 96.08984 .2070313
12 96.28125 .1914063
13 96.47266 .1914063
14 96.66797 .1953125
15 96.84766 .1796875
16 97.02734 .1796875
17 97.20703 .1796875
18 97.39844 .1914063
19 97.56641 .1679688
20 97.76172 .1953125
21 97.9375 .1757813
22 98.12109 .1835938
23 98.3125 .1914063
24 98.48047 .1679688
25 98.66016 .1796875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
0.202689
I added the 20 intervals and divided by 20
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
0.1679688,1
0.1757813,1
0.1796875,3
0.1835938,1
.1914063,3
.1953125,2
.203125,1
.2070313,1
.2148438,2
.21875,1
.2304688,1
.2382813,1
.25,1
.2773438,1
** Your general comment to this point **
no questions
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
no, it means the computer tends to round that that number.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
it shows the variedness from one interval to another, if we could accuratly to the program, it would be zero.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
2.765625
4.214844
3.425781
4.40625
3.367188
3.84375
4.125
3.953125
3.554688
3.464844
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
because breathing is irregular, also because they were farther apart and we were relaxed, they are not as likely to be identical.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
I think it depends on how apart the intervals are, it the time between intervals is very small then it is fairly accurate, but it the time between events is large, it loses accuracy. so a.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
event number clock time time interval
1 851.6016 851.6016
2 854.3672 2.765625
3 858.582 4.214844
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10 min
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