A Guide to Microsoft Excel 2007 for Scientists and Engineers

The indispensable guide for all scientists, engineers and students who wish to use Microsoft Excel to its full potential.

Bernard Liengme (Author)

9780123746238, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 27 November 2008

336 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.2 cm, 0.78 kg

Completely updated guide for scientists, engineers and students who want to use Microsoft Excel 2007 to its full potential.

Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using these functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to more complicated areas such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and presenting quantitative data.

1. The Microsoft Excel Window2. Basic Operations3. Printing a Worksheet4. Using Functions5. Decision Functions6. Charts7. Curve Fitting8. User-defined Functions9. Modelling I10. Solving Equations11. Numerical Integration12. Differential Equations13. Modelling II14. Statistics for Experimenters15. Report Writing

Subject Areas: Engineering: general [TBC]