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
Hello Prof. Smith,
Here is my Timer assignment.
Thank you.
Tanya
Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks
I see in the first column the numbers of my clicks. In the second column I see the consecutive of numbers which are added with a number equal a number from the column thee. In the last column there are the time intervals between each of my clicks.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 898.4375 898.4375
2 898.5938 .15625
3 898.7656 .171875
4 898.9219 .15625
5 899.1094 .1875
6 899.2813 .171875
7 899.4531 .171875
8 899.625 .171875
9 899.8125 .1875
10 899.9844 .171875
11 900.1406 .15625
12 900.3125 .171875
13 900.4688 .15625
14 900.6563 .1875
15 900.8281 .171875
16 901 .171875
17 901.1719 .171875
18 901.3281 .15625
19 901.5156 .1875
20 901.6719 .15625
21 901.8438 .171875
22 902.0313 .1875
23 902.1875 .15625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.17031
.15625
I used EXCEL program for average
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
0.15625, 6
0.171875, 10
0.1875, 4
Your general comment to this point
It seems unusual to click with almost the same time intervals.
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
I think that the Timer was programmed this way. I mean that only certain numbers were programmed. Any way, it is logical because people click with time intervals of 1 unit, than two units, than three, and so on. Numbers such as .1875, 0.15625, and 0.171875 are frequently repeated the first unit is the lowest number, than the second unit the next low number, and so on. Each unit is not exactly equal one second. This lists particular numbers which approximate the time intervals in seconds.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
The number which is in the last column and against a number in the third column equal the difference between the next number in the third column and the number which is second.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
4321.203
4324.063
4326.688
4329.469
4332.109
4334.219
4337.078
4339.734
4341.953
4344.563
These are clock times, not time intervals. The time intervals appear to be in the 2 second - 4 second range.
Your general comment to this point:
My time intervals didn't increase. They were almost the same.
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
No, it they didn't occur again. Maybe because I breath slowly.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
b.
I think so because the time intervals have difference between each other approximately o.o1. You gave an example and asked what it was. I gave a responce in the box number 7.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
breathing
event number clock time time interval
1 4321.203 4321.203
2 4324.063 2.859375
3 4326.688 2.625
4 4329.469 2.78125
5 4332.109 2.640625
Your data look good.
After the due date we will be discussing this experiment further via an online forum.