Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

Liengme’s Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers is a completely updated guide for students, scientists, and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2016 to its full potential, whether you’re using a PC or a Mac. 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.

Key Features

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  Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with Microsoft Office release of Excel 2016.

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  Features of Excel 2016 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based on technical contexts, demonstrating the use of the program for analysis and presentation of experimental results.

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  Where appropriate, demonstrates the differences between the PC and Mac versions of Excel.

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  Includes many new end-of-chapter problems at varying levels of difficulty.

About the Authors

Dr. Bernard Liengme attended Imperial College in London and received a BSc & Ph.D. in Chemistry. He also received post-docs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive research in surface chemistry and Mossbauer Effect. He has been at St Francis Xavier University in Canada since 1968 as professor, Associate Dean, and Registrar as well as teaching chemistry and computer science. He is the author of four previous versions of “A Guide to Microsoft Excel for Scientists and Engineers,” most recently the Excel 2013 version.

Dr. Keith Hekman received his BSE degree from Calvin College and received his Master's and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering at California Baptist University where he has taught a freshman Excel and AutoCAD course for the past 11 years. Prior to coming to CBU, he taught at Calvin College and the American University of Cairo.

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Chapter 01

Exercise 1: Customizing the QATopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: Customizing the Ribbon Controlopens in new tab/window

Welcome to Excel 2016opens in new tab/window

Chapter 02

Copying Formulas What Happens to Referencesopens in new tab/window

Exercise 1: Simple Arithmeticopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: The Mathematical Operatorsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 3: Formatting (Displayed and Stored Values)opens in new tab/window

Exercise 4: Working with Fractionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 5: A Practical Worksheetopens in new tab/window

Exercise 6: Another Practical Exampleopens in new tab/window

Exercise 7: The Evaluate Formula Toolopens in new tab/window

Chapter 03

Exercise 1: Quick Print and Print Previewopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: The Page Layout Tabopens in new tab/window

Exercise 3: Headeropens in new tab/window

Exercise 4: Documentation and Printing Formulasopens in new tab/window

Chapter 04

Exercise 1: The AutoSum Toolopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: Computing a Weighted Average and Exerciseopens in new tab/window

Exercise 4: Trigonometry Functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 5: Exponential Functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 6: The ROUND,ROUNDUP and ROUNDDOWN Functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 7: Matrix Functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 8: Solving Systems of Equationsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 9: Borrower Bewareopens in new tab/window

Chapter 05

Exercise 1: Boolean Functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: Practical Exampleopens in new tab/window

Exercise 3: Resistors Revisitedopens in new tab/window

Exercise 5: Protecting a Worksheetopens in new tab/window

Exercise 6: A Simple Lookupopens in new tab/window

Exercise 7: A Two-Valued Lookupopens in new tab/window

Exercise 8: Conditional Arithmeticopens in new tab/window

Exercise 9: Array Formulasopens in new tab/window

Exercise 10: The SUMPRODUCT functionopens in new tab/window

Exercise 11: Conditional Formattingopens in new tab/window

Chapter 06

PivotTableopens in new tab/window

Chapter 07

Exercise 1: An XY Chartopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: Plotting Functions,Changing the positionopens in new tab/window

Exercise 3: Adding and Deleting Data Seriesopens in new tab/window

Exercise 4: XY Chart with Two Y-axesopens in new tab/window

Exercise 5: Chart with Control Linesopens in new tab/window

Exercise 6: Large Numbers and Log Scalesopens in new tab/window

Exercise 7: Error Barsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 8: Plotting Parametric Equationsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 9: Polar (Radar) Chartopens in new tab/window

Exercise 10: Surface Chartsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 11: Combination Chartsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 12: Bar Chartsopens in new tab/window

Chapter 08

Exercise 1: Trendline, SLOPE, and INTERCEPTopens in new tab/window

Exercise 2: Interpolation and FORECASTopens in new tab/window

Exercise 3: The LINEST Functionopens in new tab/window

Exercise 4: Fixed Interceptopens in new tab/window

Exercise 5: Multi-linear Regressionopens in new tab/window

Exercise 6: A Polynomial Fitopens in new tab/window

Exercise 7: A Logarithmic Fit (LOGEST)opens in new tab/window

Exercise 8: The FORECAST, TREND and GROWTH functionsopens in new tab/window

Exercise 9: Slope and Tangentopens in new tab/window

Exercise 10: The Analysis Toolpakopens in new tab/window