TY - BOOK AU - Billo, E. Joseph TI - Excel for scientists and engineers: numerical methods SN - 9780471387343 AV - TA 345 .B55 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - MICROSOFT EXCEL (COMPUTER FILE) KW - ENGINEERING--DATA PROCESSING KW - SCIENCE--DATA PROCESSING KW - ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEETS N1 - Includes index; Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Chapter 1. Introducing visual basic for applications – Chapter 2. Fundamentals of programming with VBA – Chapter 3. Worksheet functions for working with matrices – Chapter 4. Number series – Chapter 5. Interpolation – Chapter 6. Differentiation – Chapter 7. Integration – Chapter 8. Roots of equations – Chapter 9. Systems of simultaneous equations – Chapter 10. Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations part I: initial conditions – Chapter 11. Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations part II: boundary conditions – Chapter 12. Partial differential equations – Chapter 13. Linear regression and curve fitting – Chapter 14. Nonlinear regression using the solver – Chapter 15. Random numbers and the Monte Carlo method -- Appendices -- Index N2 - "With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's(r) 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(r) capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA." -- Back cover ER -