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
Numers down two columns and the first column is the seconds and the second column is the frequence in which it happens.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 160.3281 160.3281
2 160.5 .171875
3 160.6406 .140625
4 160.8125 .171875
5 161.1406 .328125
6 161.3125 .171875
7 161.4688 .15625
8 161.625 .15625
9 161.7813 .15625
10 161.9375 .15625
11 162.1094 .171875
12 162.2656 .15625
13 162.4219 .15625
14 162.5781 .15625
15 162.7344 .15625
16 162.8906 .15625
17 163.3438 .453125
18 163.5156 .171875
19 163.7031 .1875
20 163.8594 .15625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.1765625
Added them all up and then divided, didn't know how to do the other way.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.171875, 5
.140625, 1
.328125, 1
.15625, 10
.453125, 1
.1875, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
Because the timer just gets an average of the starting time??
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
Some of the numbers are negative. The timer is going back and forth from two numbers.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
856.0781
1.390625
3.125
4.046875
3.14062
3.71875
3.953125
3.46875
3.5625
3.640625
3.359375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
Because it takes more time for me to take deep breaths, so the numbers are going to be more accurate.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
A. the timer is not that accurate to up to the .001 seconds it just guessimates.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
1 , 856.0781 , 856.0781
2 , 857.4688 , 1.390625
3 , 860.5938 , 3.125
4 , 864.6406 , 4.046875
5 , 867.7813 , 3.140625
6 , 871.5 , 3.71875
7 , 875.4531 , 3.953125
8 , 878.9219 , 3.46875
9 , 882.4844 , 3.5625
10 , 886.125 , 3.640625
11 , 889.4844 , 3.359375
Brandon Breaths
event number,clock time,time interval
Your data look good.
After the due date we will be discussing this experiment further via an online forum.