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
When I click the Click to Time Event button 10 times, ten rows appeared with numbers after them. This shows different time intervals.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 2.328125 2.328125
2 2.5 .171875
3 2.640625 .140625
4 2.8125 .171875
5 2.953125 .140625
6 3.09375 .140625
7 3.234375 .140625
8 3.390625 .15625
9 3.5625 .171875
10 3.71875 .15625
11 3.859375 .140625
12 4.015625 .15625
13 4.203125 .1875
14 4.359375 .15625
15 4.546875 .1875
16 4.703125 .15625
17 4.859375 .15625
18 5.171875 .3125
19 5.34375 .171875
20 5.5 .15625
21 5.671875 .171875
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
Average: .28359375
You can either add them all up and divide by 20, or you can look at the 20th interval, and you will see 5.671875 and simply divide that number by twenty and get the average. (The timer adds up the numbers as you go.)
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.171875, 5
.140625, 5
.15625, 7
.1875, 2
.3125, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The TIMER program probably reported time so fast because the program itself runs and can gather that data so fast. I think that the TIMER program can interpret the click of the mouse at extremely fast rates, thus it records them that way.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
This shows that the difference between the times is very small. Also, to me it appears that the numbers vary back and forth. This apparently illustrates that the time of the mouse click varied. To me, this shows that the TIMER program is not completely accurate, because it varied back and forth.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
4.09375
5.78125
5
4.65625
4.796875
6.125
5.65625
7.359375
5.640625
8.484375
Your general comment to this point:
My numbers are not quite as high as yours were. I was apparently breathing in more frequently than you were.
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
The longer you go, the more you relax. Thus, the numbers gradually increased for the most part.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
b.
because according to my data, I don't think the information would be completely accurate.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
When I attempted to click the button entitled Click to File Data it would not allow me to do so. It said, THIS TIMER WON'T FILE. TRY COPYING AND PASTING THE DISPLAY. Thus, I could not open it in a spreadsheet.
Your report has been received. You appear to have good data and good answers to questions. We will be discussing this work as a group, after the due date.
There are two TIMER programs. One is entitled 'timer wont file.exe' and the other is entitled simply 'timer.exe'. Take a minute and download the latter, click a few times, save and then open it in your spreadsheet; let me know if you have problem doing this.