January 2006
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
12h 3m
English
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Preface
The purpose of this book is to show you how to leverage Excel as a capable computing tool to solve a variety of both routine and complex problems. As a practicing engineer and researcher, I’ve used Excel extensively for everything from routine data analysis to sophisticated design optimization problems. There’s little doubt Excel spreadsheets are quick and easy to use. Excel’s convenient spreadsheet interface and functionality combined with its integrated Visual Basic for Applications programming language make it a powerful, versatile computing tool. Its ready availability makes it even more attractive.
It’s tough to dismiss Excel as a computing tool when it’s very likely sitting right there on your work and home computers. You probably already use Excel to some extent for routine calculations. I’d like to show you how you can leverage Excel for some calculations that are not so routine. Don’t worry if you’re new to Excel, because I cover the basics as well.
This book if full of real-world uses of Excel, many of which I have personally performed either for my own work or for clients. Throughout this book, I try to use easily recognizable, yet real-world, examples wherever possible. To this end, I draw examples from a variety of scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and chemistry to physics to structural engineering. I hope to show you how to leverage Excel to solve problems you may face in your everyday scientific or engineering tasks.
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