Process as the phenomenon represents the high-quality change happening to subject to observation for some time. Therefore, prior to the beginning of the description you have to specify an object and a period of observation.
Instruction
1. At first you need to describe a process essence, in other words - the high-quality change observed by you. For example, the match lit up, burned down, went out (an event essence – burning process). Change can be externally visible (the whole match turned into a coal core), the structure of an object, the system of communications can change, depending on what you trace. Anyway, describing change, you will need to specify in addition time and speed of change (for example, the match burned 20 seconds, carbonization speed - 2 millimeters a second). Sometimes add such characteristic of process as "recurrence" to it (there is a change observed by you once or periodically).
2. Having shown a change essence, usually pass to the description of process as the sequences of "states" For this purpose usually with divide all the time observations into equal intervals. The description of process as the sequences of states especially important when there is an opportunity somehow to measure changes of parameters of an object. For the burning match it can be measurements of temperature of a flame each 5 seconds.
3. And at last, the third part of the description of process – the description of the changes happening at the same time in elements, adjacent to an object (not less, and sometimes even more important, than the description of change of a subject to observation). For example, during burning process (its essence in course of chemical reaction to allocation of heat) there are events, also adjacent to it: the composition of air (the amount of oxygen falls) changes, the physical structure of air (there are ascending and descending air flows, local turbulence) changes, optical properties of air, etc. change. Observation of events, zones, occurring in adjacent to directly process, supplies to the researcher with the major information about that as well as from where the energy necessary for the process undertakes. However, if you observe the perpetual motion machine, the third part of the description can be neglected.