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Engineering with Excel

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ISBN-10: 0130176966

ISBN-13: 9780130176967

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ronald Larsen

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For courses in Computer Methods. An extensive text thoroughly covering the application of Excel to Engineering. This book is best for those who will spend a significant amount of time covering Excel during a semester or quarter, those who require that their students have a complete engineering reference to excel, or those who want to learn to apply excel to engineering problems on their own. This text is designed for all users from introductory to graduate students.
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Book details

List price: $33.75
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 11/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 492
Size: 7.95" wide x 9.96" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Introduction to Excel
Introduction
Starting Excel
A Little Windows
Spreadsheet Basics
Printing the Spreadsheet
Saving, Opening Workbooks, and Exiting
Graphing with Excel
Introduction
Getting Ready to Graph: Importing Text Files
Creating an XY Scatter Plot
Editing an Existing Graph
Creating Graphs with Multiple Curves
Printing the Graph
Types of Graphs
Excel Functions
Introduction to Excel Functions
Excel's Built-in Functions
Using the Convert ( ) Function to Convert Units
Simple Math Functions
Computing Sums
Trigonometric Functions
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Advanced Math Functions
Conditional Formatting
Error Function
Bessel Functions
Working with Complex Numbers
Working with Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Values
Miscellaneous Functions
Matrix Operations in Excel
Matrix Manipulations: Vectors, Matrices, and Arrays
How Excel Handles Matrix Math
Basic Matrix Operations
Solving Systems of Linear Equations
Linear Regression in Excel
Introduction
Linear Regression Using Excel Functions
Linear Regression Using Excel's Trend Line Capability
Other Two-Coefficient Linear Regression Models
Polynomial Regression
Linear Regression Using Excel's Regression Analysis Package
Iterative Solutions Using Excel
Introduction
Iterative Solutions
Introduction to Excel's Solver
Optimization Using the Solver
Nonlinear Regression
Testing the Regression Result
Using Macros in Excel
Introduction
Macros and Viruses
Recorded Macros
Programmed Macros (VBA)
Programming in Excel with VBA
Introduction
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Overview
Forms and Modules
Working with Forms
Using the Form from the Spreadsheet
Sharing Excel Information with Other Programs
Introduction to Sharing Excel Information with Other Programs
Using Copy and Paste to Move Information
Embedded and Linked Objects
External Data Sources
Time Value of Money with Excel
Time, Money, and Cash Flows
Interest Rates and Compounding
Moving Amounts through Time
Economic Alternatives: Making Decisions
Financial Calculations with Excel
Introduction
Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value
Depreciation of Assets
Excel's Statistics Functions
Overview
Populations and Samples
Standard Deviations and Variances
Errors, Deviations, and Distributions
Confidence Intervals
Numerical Differentiation Using Excel
Finite Differences
Filtering Data
Curve-Fitting and Differentiation
Numerical Integration Using Excel
Integrating for Area under a Curve
Integrating for Area Between Two Curves
Numerical Integration Methods
Using Regression Equations for Integration
Numerical Integration Techniques for Differential Equations Using Excel
Euler's Method
Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta Method
Integrating Two Simultaneous ODEs Using the Runge-Kutta Method
Implicit Methods
Index