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This best-selling "Spreadsheet" book provides excellent coverage of all versions of Excel, including the latest version, Excel 2002. It discusses how to use Excel to solve a variety of problems in introductory engineering analysis, such as graphing data, unit conversions, simple statistical analysis, sorting, searching and analyzing data, curve fitting, interpolation, solving algebraic equations, logical decisions, evaluating integrals, comparing economic alternatives, and finding optimum solutions. Numerous examples are included illustrating both traditional and spreadsheet solutions to a variety of problems. The underlying mathematical solution procedures are also discussed, so that the reader is provided with an understanding of what the spreadsheet does and how it does it.
| ISBN | 0072480688 | | Pages | 469 | | ISBN13 | 9780072480689 (What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | | Weight (grammes) | 712 | | Imprint | McGraw Hill Higher Education | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | McGraw-Hill's Best - Basic Engineering Series and Tools | | Publication date | 01 Sep 2002 | | Height (mm) | 231 | | Non-book description | x, 469 p. : | | Width (mm) | 188 | | Library of Congress | TA345.G67 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 620.00285536 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| Ch. 1 | | Engineering Analysis and Spreadsheets | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Excel Fundamentals | | 13 | | Ch. 3 | | Graphing Data | | 71 | | Ch. 4 | | Converting Units | | 111 | | Ch. 5 | | Transferring Data | | 122 | | Ch. 6 | | Analyzing Data | | 148 | | Ch. 7 | | Organizing Data | | 173 | | Ch. 8 | | Fitting Equations to Data | | 198 | | Ch. 9 | | Interpolating between Data Points | | 247 | | Ch. 10 | | Solving Single Equations | | 273 | | Ch. 11 | | Solving Simultaneous Equations | | 298 | | Ch. 12 | | Making Logical Decisions (IF-THEN-ELSE) | | 331 | | Ch. 13 | | Evaluating Integrals | | 340 | | Ch. 14 | | Comparing Economic Alternatives | | 366 | | Ch. 15 | | Finding Optimum Solutions | | 406 | | | | Answers to Selected Problems | | 438 | | | | Index | | 465 |
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