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| Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods | 
| Author: E. Joseph Billo
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0471387347
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.002855369
EAN: 9780471387343
ASIN: 0471387347
Publication Date: April 6, 2007
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Product Description
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-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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This book is the REAL DEAL...... July 10, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods
I am very pleased with my purchase of this book. This book is the REAL DEAL.....if you are looking to do advanced numerical math with an Excel spreadsheet. Many other "Excel books for Scientists" simply offer elementary methods on error detection, lists of items and simple math like rounding off, etc. This book is completely different. It starts of on doing matrices with Excel, then goes through Interpolation, differentiation, Integration, Simultaneos Equations, Partial Differential equations, then finishes off with both Linear as well as Non-Linear Regression techniques and Curve Fitting.
In and of itself, even if it didn't show methods to do these things with an Excel spreadsheet, the book would be well worth the read simply as a refresher course in these topics. However, it does show lucid, well-thought out examples of implementing complex numerical methods with standard Excel spreadsheets.
The only thing that this book is lacking in, is a coverage of normal level usage of VBA. It does start off in the very first few chapters with a cursory coverage of VBA, but that is pretty much all that we hear of VBA throughout the rest of the book. However, this is not too much of a drawback, because there are many volumes of other books which cover VBA in wonderful detail. What would be a marriage made in Heaven would be this book with more step-by-step integration with VBA, showing advanced programming techniques in Excel with regards to the great coverage of numerical methods.
Excellent Book on Excel VBA Programming December 11, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
My library holds many books on using Excel and programming in Excel VBA. Billo's book has brought valuable hints and techniques that have enhanced my VBA programming skills. The book offers a well balanced coverage of numerical analysis and statistical regression topics. While the examples are more geared for the chemists, they should not be a turn off for readers who are in other scientific and engineering disciplines.
Billo offers an interesting approach to using VBA code and shows you, throughout the book, how to write functions (in modules) that you can use as "custom functions" in your spreadsheets. Excel invokes these functions automatically whenever you alter a cell value and trigger automatic recalculations. This technique frees you from having to repeatedly invoke VBA macros to recalculate values in a spreadsheet. The "custom functions" you learn to build become a custom extension to the Excel library of built-in functions.
I highly recommend this fine book and congratulate the author on his clever work. Billo's book stands out among other Excel VBA books.
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