Friday, March 30, 2007

Lab 9: Excel Response

During this lab I learned a lot about Excel and its functions. I thought that this lab was very helpful for further times when I might need to use Excel. I liked working with the chart wizard to make the charts a lot easier to make and edit.

I felt that the equations on m, b, and r were very confusing from what they said on the lab instructions. I felt that the equation for the m value was easy enough, but the b and r ones werent as familiar to me. I felt that the data analysis tool was very easy to use and helpful as a whole. After using the data analysis tool I didnt understand why we had to calculate the m,b, and r values.

After doing this I felt like using the chart wizard was very familiar to me. I felt like after I used the data analysis tool I didnt really understand what all the values stood for, except for the m, b, and r values. After completing this lab I feel that I am pretty comfortable with modeling the data that was imported from the text file, or with any type of data given.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Lab 7: Logic Gates



For this simple logic gate everytime you would put in a "0" for both values "A" and "B" you would always get a 0 for the output. As long as both of the input values were both 1 or 0, you would get a 0 for the output. When the two inputs are different values, you get a 1 for the output.



ABOutput 1Output 2
0011
0111
1011
1100
In the second example for the table to the left, it shows that even though both of the two input switches went through different logic gates, they both had the exact same outputs. This table also shows that De Morgan's Law is true based on the values given and the way the logic gates worked in the above screenshot.