timer program

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 **

it gives the time at which I clicked and then beside that gives the time between clicks

** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **

1 103.4063 103.4063

2 103.5391 .1328125

3 103.6875 .1484375

4 103.9688 .28125

5 104.0938 .125

6 104.2266 .1328125

7 104.3125 .0859375

8 104.4688 .15625

9 104.5938 .125

10 104.7266 .1328125

11 104.8438 .1171875

12 104.9766 .1328125

13 105.0859 .109375

14 105.2266 .140625

15 105.3594 .1328125

16 105.4766 .1171875

17 105.6172 .140625

18 105.75 .1328125

19 105.875 .125

20 106.0156 .140625

21 106.1484 .1328125

22 106.2656 .1171875

23 106.4219 .15625

** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **

.130465

I subtracted 106.0156 (the 20th interval) and 103.406 (the start time) and then divided that answer by 20 to come up with an average.

There are only 19 intervals between the first and 20th click.

.28 seconds corresponds to a missed click, and in order to submit data consistent with the instructions you should have run another set of data (which in this case takes only a few seconds).

** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **

.0859375, 1

.109375, 1

.1171875, 2

.125, 3

.1328125, 5

.140625, 3

.1484375, 1

.15625, 1

.28125, 1

** Your general comment to this point **

** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **

I think it works like that because it is programmed to give report the time nearest to the times related to those saved in it's programming.

** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **

the 4th and 5th numbers behind the decimal point are given in only 25 or 63 and tells me that the timer program gives the time closest to those saved in the programming of the timer.

** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **

10.42969

13.55469

15.85938

18.92188

21.77344

24.35156

26.57813

29.1875

32.11719

34.95313

** Your general comment to this point: **

** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **

we were not following a pattern like clicking time after time, and our rate of breating changes as we become more relaxed and so the intervals are getting longer.

** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **

A. Because the program seems to be accurate within a tenth, and after that it seems to vary due to a like results in intervals.

** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **

Breaths

event number clock time time interval

1 10.42969 10.42969

2 13.55469 3.125

3 15.85938 2.304688

4 18.92188 3.0625

5 21.77344 2.851563

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Good work, but be sure to see my notes related to two small flaws, one in your data and one in your analysis.