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 **
Time intervals based upon each click of the timer.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 93.65625 93.65625
2 93.84375 .1875
3 93.98438 .140625
4 94.15625 .171875
5 94.3125 .15625
6 94.48438 .171875
7 94.625 .140625
8 94.8125 .1875
9 94.98438 .171875
10 95.14063 .15625
11 95.3125 .171875
12 95.46875 .15625
13 95.65625 .1875
14 95.8125 .15625
15 95.96875 .15625
16 96.125 .15625
17 96.29688 .171875
18 96.45313 .15625
19 96.64063 .1875
20 96.78125 .140625
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
4.8390625
Well, I did the hard way by adding the 20 numbers and dividing by 20 however I transferred them to Excel and did the sum there.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
0.1875,4
0.140625,3
0.171875,5
0.15625,7
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
No, it timed the amount of time it took me to click the mouse each time.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
The difference is consistent, almost has a pattern to it. This tells me that the timer program picks up on the pattern of my clicking the counter.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
1089.047
2.4375
2.390625
1.875
1.65625
1.96875
2.296875
1.6875
1.671875
1.796875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because there is not a patter to our breathing.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
d.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
Regular Inhaled breaths
event number,clock time,time interval
1 , 1089.047 , 1089.047
2 , 1091.484 , 2.4375
3 , 1093.875 , 2.390625
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25 minutes
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Your work on this lab is acceptable. Keep up the good work.