Learn to fully harness the power of Microsoft Excel(r) to perform scientific and engineering calculations
With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel’s(r) 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’s(r) 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.
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Detailed Table of Contents vii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
About the Author xix
Chapter 1 Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 1
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Programming with VBA 15
Chapter 3 Worksheet Functions for Working with Matrices 57
Chapter 4 Number Series 69
Chapter 5 Interpolation 77
Chapter 6 Differentiation 99
Chapter 7 Integration 127
Chapter 8 Roots of Equations 147
Chapter 9 Systems of Simultaneous Equations 189
Chapter 10 Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Part I: Initial Conditions 217
Chapter 11 Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Part II: Boundary Conditions 245
Chapter 12 Partial Differential Equations 263
Chapter 13 Linear Regression and Curve Fitting 287
Chapter 14 Nonlinear Regression Using the Solver 313
Chapter 15 Random Numbers and the Monte Carlo Method 341
Appendices
Appendix 1 Selected VBA Keywords 365
Appendix 2 Shortcut Keys for VBA 387
Appendix 3 Custom Functions Help File 389
Appendix 4 Some Equations for Curve Fitting 409
Appendix 5 Engineering and Other Functions 423
Appendix 6 ASCII Codes 427
Appendix 7 Bibliography 429
Appendix 8 Answers and Comments for End-of-Chapter Problems 431
Index 443
Over de auteur
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.
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