Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel scientists and engineerseverywhere are using itinstead of FORTRANto solve problems. And why not?Excel is ins... » 

Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel scientists and engineerseverywhere are using itinstead of FORTRANto solve problems. And why not?Excel is installed on millions of computers features a rich set of builtinanalyses tools and includes an integrated Visual Basic for Applications VBAprogramming language. No wonder its todays computing tool of choice. Chancesare you already use Excel to perform some fairly routine calculations. Now theExcel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook shows you how to leverage Excel toperform more complex calculations too calculations that once fell in thedomain of specialized tools. It does so by putting a smorgasbord of dataanalysis techniques right at your fingertips. The book shows how to performthese useful tasks and others Use Excel and VBA in general Import datafrom a variety of sources Analyze data Perform calculations Visualize theresults for interpretation and presentation Use Excel to solve specificscience and engineering problems Wherever possible the Excel Scientific andEngineering Cookbook draws on realworld examples from a range of scientificdisciplines such as biology chemistry and physics. This way youll be betterprepared to solve the problems you face in your everyday scientific orengineering tasks. High on practicality and low on theory this quick lookupreference provides instant solutions or recipes to problems both basic andadvanced. And like other books in OReillys popular Cookbook format eachrecipe also includes a discussion on how and why it works. As a result you cantake comfort in knowing that complete practical answers are a mere pageflipaway. «