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 **
numbers
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 86.69531 86.69531
2 86.89844 .203125
3 87.16406 .265625
4 87.37891 .2148438
5 87.59375 .2148438
6 87.8125 .21875
7 88.02344 .2109375
8 88.22656 .203125
9 88.42969 .203125
10 88.65625 .2265625
11 88.87109 .2148438
12 89.0625 .1914063
13 89.23438 .171875
14 89.375 .140625
15 89.51953 .1445313
16 89.75781 .2382813
17 89.86328 .1054688
18 90.25 .3867188
19 90.45313 .203125
20 90.55859 .1054688
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.2265
I found the median
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.203125,1
.265625,2
.2148438,1
.2148438,3
.21875,2
This appears to be a reasonably accurate accounting for 9 of the 20 intervals, but the remaining 11 intervals are not included in your tally.
** Your general comment to this point **
I do not get it!
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
No, it means that is the time interval
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
clock time, time interval
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
2.789063
3.839844
3.734375
3.578125
3.078125
2.738281
1.847656
.2578125
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
because the timing is different each itme
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
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** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
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20 min
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