Excel for Scientists and Engineers Numerical Methods

by Billo, E. Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780471387343
• ISBN10: 0471387347
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

Learn to fully harness the power of Microsoft Excel; to perform scientific and engineering calculations With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's capabilities to execute the calculations needed to solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The text begins with two chapters that introduce you to Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which allows you to expand Excel'sreg; capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA. Following the author's step-by-step instructions, here are just a few of the calculations you learn to perform: Use worksheet functions to work with matrices Find roots of equations and solve systems of simultaneous equations Solve ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations Perform linear and non-linear regression Use random numbers and the Monte Carlo method This text is loaded with examples ranging from very basic to highly sophisticated solutions. More than 100 end-of-chapter problems help you test and put your knowledge to practice solving real-world problems. Answers and explanatory notes for most of the problems are provided in an appendix. The CD-ROM that accompanies this text provides several useful features: All the spreadsheets, charts, and VBA code needed to perform the examples from the text Solutions to most of the end-of-chapter problems An add-in workbook with more than twenty custom functions This text does not require any background in programming, so it is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Moreover, practitioners in science and engineering will find that this guide saves hours of time by enabling them to perform most of their calculations with one familiar spreadsheet package

Author Biography

E. Joseph Billo, a former associate professor of chemistry at Boston College, is the author of Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition (Wiley). He has developed two short courses, "Advanced Excel for Scientists and Engineers" and "Excel Visual Basic Macros for Scientists and Engineers," which he has presented to thousands of scientists throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe for organizations such as The American Chemical Society, the National Cancer Institute, Procter & Gamble, Shell, and Texaco.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introducing Visual Basic for Applications

Fundamentals of Programming with VBA

Worksheet Functions for Working with Matrices

Number Series

Interpolation

Differentiation

Integration

Roots of Equations

Systems of Simultaneous Equations

Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Part I: Initial Conditions

Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Part II: Boundary Conditions

Partial Differential Equations

Linear Regression and Curve Fitting

Nonlinear Regression Using the Solver

Random Numbers and the Monte Carlo Method

Appendices

Selected VBA Keywords

Shortcut Keys for VBA

Custom Functions Help File

Some Equations for Curve Fitting

Engineering and Other Functions

ASCII Codes

Bibliography

Answers and Comments for End-of-Chapter Problems

Index

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