timer program

Phy 201

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 **

I see a list of numbers from one to ten, and then I see a second column with numbers that start with 462.9219 and goes through 466.4375, and a third column the first number being 462.9219 and the end being .40625

** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **

1 32.90625 32.90625

2 33.04688 .140625

3 33.20313 .15625

4 33.35938 .15625

5 33.48438 .125

6 33.60938 .125

7 33.73438 .125

8 33.85938 .125

9 34 .140625

10 34.14063 .140625

11 34.28125 .140625

12 34.42188 .140625

13 34.5625 .140625

14 34.71875 .15625

15 34.85938 .140625

16 34.98438 .125

17 35.14063 .15625

18 35.28125 .140625

19 35.42188 .140625

20 35.5625 .140625

21 35.70313 .140625

** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **

1.78515625

That 32.9 seconds at the beginning was not a quick-click interval and shouldn't have been counted.

I added all the numbers that start with a decimal becuase i wasn't sure which intervals i needed to average out. After i added all of the first twenty numbers I then divided by 20.

** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **

32.90625, 1

.15625, 4

.125, 5

.140625, 10

** Your general comment to this point **

** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **

I don't think that the timer is flawed, I don't really know why it would put the same amount of time so often???

** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **

The last colum as stated gives the time between each time interval. I'm not to sure what it means, i would say that the TIMER program doesn't record those. You would have to find the time between the time intervals yourself.

** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **

7.796875

8.03125

8.609375

9.296875

8.515625

8.75

8.953125

** Your general comment to this point: **

** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **

I would say that the reason the breathing was different from the first fast clicks, was because where there was such a time difference there was more time between each breath as opposed to between every fas click

** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **

I would say it would be D. because of the decimal places.

** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **

1 3745.953 3745.953

2 3753.75 7.796875

3 3761.781 8.03125

4 3770.391 8.609375

5 3779.688 9.296875

6 3788.203 8.515625

7 3796.953 8.75

8 3805.906 8.953125

9 3812.719 6.8125

10 3819.953 7.234375

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one hour

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Good, but see my note.