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
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Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks
A list 1-10 with two columns of numbers for each click.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 470.7266 470.7266
2 470.9141 .1875
3 471.0703 .15625
4 471.2578 .1875
5 471.4297 .171875
6 471.6172 .1875
7 471.7891 .171875
8 471.9922 .203125
9 472.1797 .1875
10 472.3672 .1875
11 472.5547 .1875
12 472.7266 .171875
13 472.9141 .1875
14 473.1016 .1875
15 473.2891 .1875
16 473.4922 .203125
17 473.6953 .203125
18 473.8828 .1875
19 474.0859 .203125
20 474.2891 .203125
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
23.714455
I added up the second columns for 1-20 and divided by 20.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.203125,5
.1875,10
.171875,3
.15625,1
470.7266,1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
Maybe the clicks occured to fast to be timed or the time between clicks was.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
The difference alternates between negative and positive intervals.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
5.34375
3.640625
7.140625
7.5
6.203125
7.453125
8.0625
5.21875
4.4375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
Because i wasn't clicking as fast as i was on the first timer experiment.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
C.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
series of regular breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 1270.402 1270.402
2 1275.746 5.34375
3 1279.387 3.640625
4 1286.527 7.140625
5 1294.027 7.5
6 1300.23 6.203125
35 minutes
Good work. We will be discussing this in class.