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 **
Everytime you click the button, it records the time on the left and how much time has lapsed since the last click to the right.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 2.53125 2.53125
2 2.703125 .171875
3 2.875 .171875
4 3.046875 .171875
5 3.21875 .171875
6 3.40625 .1875
7 3.609375 .203125
8 3.78125 .171875
9 3.9375 .15625
10 4.109375 .171875
11 4.265625 .15625
12 4.421875 .15625
13 4.59375 .171875
14 4.71875 .125
15 4.90625 .1875
16 5.046875 .140625
17 5.1875 .140625
18 5.359375 .171875
19 5.5 .140625
20 5.640625 .140625
21 5.796875 .15625
22 5.9375 .1406252.
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.1548
I subtracted the last number (5.9375) from the first number (2.53125) and divided it by 22
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.125, 1
.140625, 5
.15625, 4
.171875, 9
.1875, 2
.203125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
It's interesting that I have 2 pretty consistent numbers...
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
The timer program probably isn't flawed, I just don't believe that anything you can use can be exact. There will probably be some sort of variation in all
timers. The timer isn't useless. We just have to remember that it times us to the best of its ability and isn't 100% accurate. Maybe 99.99% but not
100%.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
There are several like numbers. Maybe the timer program times certain intervals. The smallest interval seems to be 0.015625. That could be the closest
measurement it has.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
6.578125
6.9375
7.484375
7.171875
7
6.3125
6.96875
6.46875
6.6875
** Your general comment to this point: **
I need to relax more and take deeper breaths...
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
We don't take each breath at the exact time.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
I believe the answer is b. Of the experiments so far, there have been intervals larger than the .01 and there has not been any intervals that have been smaller
than .001 second. Or possibly, we are just not that fast?
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
I closed my timer too soon. I re-opened it and just clicked several times to get data to appear. I followed the directions but when I opened it, it did not open
in several windows. There was no Delimited or Comma box. It just opened. Is there a problem with that?
Series of breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 1.59375 1.59375
2 1.765625 0.171875
3 1.9375 0.171875
4 2.140625 0.203125
5 2.296875 0.15625
6 2.625 0.328125
7 2.78125 0.15625
8 2.9375 0.15625
9 3.265625 0.328125
10 3.453125 0.1875
Bad formatting, is that where there was no delimited or comma window?
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