A guide to Microsoft® Excel 2013 for scientists and engineers

Completely updated guide for students, scientists and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2013 to its full potential. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using these functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to more complicated areas such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and presenting quantitative data. Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office release of Excel 2013. Features of Excel 2013 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based in technical contexts, demonstrating the use of the program for analysis and presentation of experimental results. New to this edition: The Backstage is introduced (a new Office 2013 feature); all the ‘external’ operations like Save, Print etc. are now in one place The chapter on charting is totally revised and updated – Excel 2013 differs greatly from earlier versions Includes many new end-of-chapter problems Most chapters have been edited to improve readability

Completely updated guide for students, scientists and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2013 to its full potential. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using these functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to more complicated areas such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and presenting quantitative data.

• Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office release of Excel 2013.
• Features of Excel 2013 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based in technical contexts, demonstrating the use of the program for analysis and presentation of experimental results.

New to this edition:

• The Backstage is introduced (a new Office 2013 feature); all the ‘external’ operations like Save, Print etc. are now in one place
• The chapter on charting is totally revised and updated – Excel 2013 differs greatly from earlier versions
• Includes many new end-of-chapter problems
• Most chapters have been edited to improve readability

Content: Front Matter, Pages i-ii Copyright, Page iv Preface, Pages xi-xii Chapter 1 - Welcome to Microsoft® Excel 2013, Pages 1-10 Chapter 2 - Basic Operations, Pages 11-39 Chapter 3 - Printing in Excel, Pages 41-48 Chapter 4 - Using Functions, Pages 49-74 Chapter 5 - Conditional Functions, Pages 75-102 Chapter 6 - Data Mining, Pages 103-116 Chapter 7 - Charts, Pages 117-155 Chapter 8 - Regression Analysis, Pages 157-179 Chapter 9 - VBA User-Defined Functions, Pages 181-206 Chapter 10 - VBA Subroutines, Pages 207-227 Chapter 11 - Modeling I, Pages 229-246 Chapter 12 - Using Solver, Pages 247-271 Chapter 13 - Numerical Integration, Pages 273-290 Chapter 14 - Differential Equations, Pages 291-306 Chapter 15 - Modeling II, Pages 307-319 Chapter 16 - Statistics for Experimenters, Pages 321-345 Appendix - Answers, Pages 347-360 Index, Pages 361-365