Version 1.0, April 1998
Use Microsoft Word and Excel to present your report. If you have another wordprocessor and spreadsheet on your own computer then you may use these instead (for example the Lotus Notes system). Answer the following questions about the different parts of the project. Please keep you explanations concise, but at the same time provide reasons for your answers.
You should provide a diskette containing your data and any programmes for each pair. Label and document the contents of the diskette.
Each pair should hand in their reports together, with the above diskette, as stated earlier we expect individuals to write their own reports and provide individual answers to the questions below.
An ADC would be appropriate in the computer interface to measure one of these, but not the other, which one? What type of ADC would be most appropriate for such measurements? What precision and conversion speed would be needed for such an ADC?
For the measurement method for which an ADC would not be appropriate as the computer interface, can you suggest a simple way in which the computer could still be of use for measurements?
Detail your attempts to try to discover a substitute for the Stick(0) function. If you modified the QBASIC programme(s) to help with this substitution, describe what you did and why. If you used the Internet, say what you found and give any URLs that you think were useful.
If you wrote a C programme (or even the shell of a programme to show how this part could be achieved) then provide a listing, comments, and description of what it does.
Use Excel to analyse your data. Draw appropriate graphs to illustrate the analysis of how the meter worked.