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 **
10 intervals of numbers corresponding when I clicked to time.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
2 3.171875 .15625
3 3.34375 .171875
4 3.515625 .171875
5 3.6875 .171875
6 3.84375 .15625
7 4.015625 .171875
8 4.171875 .15625
9 4.34375 .171875
10 4.5 .15625
11 4.6875 .1875
12 4.859375 .171875
13 5.03125 .171875
14 5.1875 .15625
15 5.375 .1875
16 5.546875 .171875
17 5.734375 .1875
18 5.890625 .15625
19 6.0625 .171875
20 6.25 .1875
21 6.453125 .203125
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.203
I got this answer by adding all times and dividing by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.15625, 6
.171875, 9
.1875, 3
.203125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think the program can only measure times to a certain accuracy, then just gives an approximate time when it can't give the exact time.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
The program is accurate to +0.03125 and -0.01563
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
10.10938
16.73438
22.60938
28.3125
34.48438
41.10938
46.8125
53.70313
59.375
65.1875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because the time interval increased greatly timing breaths, instead of the fast clicks.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
a.
This is because the numbers tend to repeat after measuring .1 second.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
event number clock time time interval
1 10.10938 10.10938
2 16.73438 6.625
3 22.60938 5.875
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about 30 mins
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