How to Use Excel® in Analytical Chemistry
And in General Scientific Data Analysis

Advanced chemistry textbook on use of spreadsheets in analytical chemistry.

Robert de Levie (Author)

9780521644846, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 February 2001

502 pages, 143 b/w illus. 13 tables
24.9 x 17.6 x 2.6 cm, 1.017 kg

'… a welcome addition …'. Peter Biggs, Chemistry & Industry

Because of their intuitive layout, extensive mathematical capabilities, and convenient graphics, spreadsheets provide an easy, straightforward route to scientific computing. This textbook for undergraduate and entry-level graduate chemistry and chemical engineering students uses Excel, the most powerful available spreadsheet, to explore and solve problems in general and chemical data analysis. This is the only up-to-date text on the use of spreadsheets in chemistry. The book discusses topics including statistics, chemical equilibria, pH calculations, titrations, and instrumental methods such as chromatography, spectrometry, and electroanalysis. It contains many examples of data analysis, and uses spreadsheets for numerical simulations, and testing analytical procedures. It also treats modern data analysis methods such as linear and non-linear least squares in great detail, as well as methods based on Fourier transformation. The book shows how matrix methods can be powerful tools in data analysis, and how easily these are implemented on a spreadsheet and describes in detail how to simulate chemical kinetics on a spreadsheet. It also introduces the reader to the use of VBA, the macro language of Microsoft Office, which lets the user import higher-level computer programs into the spreadsheet.

Part I. Introduction to Using the Spreadsheet: 1. How to use Excel
Part II. Statistics and Related Methods: 2. Introduction to statistics
3. More on least-squares
Part III. Chemical Equilibria: 4. Acids, bases, and salts
5. Other ionic equilibria
Part IV. Instrumental Methods: 6. Spectrometry, chromatography, and voltammetry
Part V. Mathematical Methods: 7. Fourier transformation
8. Standard mathematical tools
9. Numerical simulation of chemical kinetics
Part VI. Spreadsheet Programming: 10. Macros.

Subject Areas: Chemistry [PN]