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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829891303321

Autore

Billo E. Joseph

Titolo

Excel for scientists and engineers : numerical methods / / E. Joseph Billo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-280-83923-6

9786610839230

0-470-12671-X

0-470-12670-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Classificazione

54.50

Disciplina

620.00285/5369

Soggetti

Engineering - Data processing

Science - Data processing

Electronic spreadsheets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-429) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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's® capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA. Following the author's step-by-st