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
I see accumiated time after each click, and time interval between clicks
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 93.36719 93.36719
2 93.54688 .1796875
3 93.69531 .1484375
4 93.82813 .1328125
5 93.99219 .1640625
6 94.125 .1328125
7 94.28906 .1640625
8 94.42188 .1328125
9 94.57813 .15625
10 94.74219 .1640625
11 94.90625 .1640625
12 95.0625 .15625
13 95.21875 .15625
14 95.39844 .1796875
15 95.57031 .171875
16 95.74219 .171875
17 95.89844 .15625
18 96.05469 .15625
19 96.21094 .15625
20 96.35156 .140625
21 96.49219 .140625
22 96.625 .1328125
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.1492185
I took the value at 20 which was 96.35156 and subtracted the initial value. Then divided it by 20.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.138125,3
.140625,2
.15625,6
.1640625,4
.171875,2
.1796875,2
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
No it's not useless it just means you were clicking faster than its time base and it didn't have time to reset itself-maybe
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
I see that they are repetitive also.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
3.585938
3.484375
3.664063
3.554688
4.085938
4.132813
3.890625
4.234375
4.023438
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
Because the timer had time to reset within its timebase
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
Timer for relax breath
event number clock time time interval
1 1061.141 1061.141
2 1064.727 3.585938
3 1068.211 3.484375
4 1071.875 3.664063
5 1075.43 3.554688
6 1079.516 4.085938
7 1083.648 4.132813
8 1087.539 3.890625
9 1091.773 4.234375
10 1095.797 4.023438
You have good data and your answers are well stated.
Once all experiments have been received, we will be discussing this experiment further via an online forum.