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 the number of times i clicked the button on the far left and in the middlei see the running time. To the far left I see the interval os time between each time I hit the button.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 346.0781 346.0781
2 346.3281 .25
3 346.5469 .21875
4 346.7813 .234375
5 346.9844 .203125
6 347.1719 .1875
7 347.375 .203125
8 347.5938 .21875
9 347.7969 .203125
10 348.0156 .21875
11 348.2188 .203125
12 348.4063 .1875
13 348.6094 .203125
14 348.8125 .203125
15 349.0156 .203125
16 349.2188 .203125
17 349.4375 .21875
18 349.625 .1875
19 349.8594 .234375
20 350.0469 .1875
21 350.25 .203125
22 350.4375 .1875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.1984375
Add up the first 20 intervals and divided by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.25, 1
.21875, 4
.1875, 3
.203125, 7
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think the program is useful for information that has to be accurate not precise. I think the timer rounds off what it can fit in the box.You can take the difference of two consecutative times to get a more precise time.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
The program uses significant figures to be more accurate.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
6.421875
7.25
7.234375
8.1875
6.34375
8.125
5.375
7.671875
5.9375
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
The times are more random because they were longer intervals
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
A because most of my results were about .1 off.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
Inihalation
event number clock time time interval
1 1974.094 1974.094
2 1980.516 6.421875
3 1987.766 7.25
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It took me about 45 min to complete experiment
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This was helpful.
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