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
This is a stopwatch. Each time you click time event, a new time will come up.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 274.6875 274.6875
2 275.25 .5625
3 275.8438 .59375
4 277.7969 1.953125
5 280.2344 2.4375
6 283.7031 3.46875
7 284.2031 .5
8 284.6406 .4375
9 284.8281 .1875
10 285.0313 .203125
11 287.3125 2.28125
12 288.4531 1.140625
13 289.875 1.421875
14 290.0625 .1875
15 290.2656 .203125
16 290.4688 .203125
17 291.0938 .625
18 291.2969 .203125
19 291.7188 .421875
20 292.125 .40625
21 292.4688 .34375
22 292.6719 .203125
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.77
I added up the 20 times and divided by 20.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.1875, 3
.203, 5
.343, 1
.406, 1
.421, 1
.5, 1
.5625, 1
.5937, 1
.625, 1
1.93, 1
2.28, 1
2.43, 1
3.46, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The timer may round up.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
The timer counts from when you did your time event.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
1 4.671875 4.671875
2 8.375 3.703125
3 12.60938 4.234375
4 16.23438 3.625
5 20.07813 3.84375
6 23.92188 3.84375
7 27.64063 3.71875
8 31.42188 3.78125
9 34.79688 3.375
10 38.90625 4.109375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
Our body changes and we take breaths at different intervals. If we run, we take more breaths than if we were sleeping.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
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I had the exact same times during the breathing exercise. I don't think that my body is that accurate.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
breathing exercise
event number clock time time interval
1 4.671875 4.671875
2 8.375 3.703125
3 12.60938 4.234375
4 16.23438 3.625
Your data look good, though it doesn't look like you used a run of 20 truly fast clicks for the first set.
After the due date we will be discussing this experiment further via an online forum.