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 **
this online concept is taking me awhile to feel comfortable with this format and program. I may be a little behind but will catch up
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
10 occurrances of numbers; which do not make much sense since there is no reference point
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 495.75 495.75
2 495.9844 .234375
3 496.2031 .21875
4 496.4219 .21875
5 496.6406 .21875
6 496.8594 .21875
7 497.0938 .234375
8 497.3281 .234375
9 497.5469 .21875
10 497.7969 .25
11 498.0156 .21875
12 498.2344 .21875
13 498.4688 .234375
14 498.6875 .21875
15 498.9219 .234375
16 499.125 .203125
17 499.3438 .21875
18 499.5938 .25
19 499.8125 .21875
20 500.0156 .203125
21 500.2188 .203125
22 500.3438 .125
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
498.179 obtained by adding each interval and dividing by the total number of trials
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.234375,5
.21875, 10
.25, 2
.125, 1
.203125, 3
0,1
** Your general comment to this point **
no comments
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
the timer prgram rounded to the nearest 4 figures. no, the the timer is not flawed. maybe anytime smaller than 4 significant figures is too miniscule
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
aome differences are in the negative and some are smaller than 4 significant numbers.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
7.203125
6.921875
7.640625
6.796875
9.46875
8.65625
9.015625
8.9375
7.90625
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
the variablility between the time intervals is affected in breathing by voluntary input i.e. anticipation, body position, while repetitive movements have less voluntary input--almost becomes reflexive
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
the timer program is capable of determining the time within about .0001 second
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
breathing
event number clock time time interval
1 3780.984 3780.984
2 3788.188 7.203125
3 3795.109 6.921875
4 3802.75 7.640625
5 3809.547 6.796875
6 3819.016 9.46875
7 3827.672 8.65625
8 3836.688 9.015625
9 3845.625 8.9375
10 3853.531 7.90625
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