Book Companion

Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

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Chapter 05

Chapter 06

Chapter 07

Chapter 08

Regression With Matrix(opens in new tab/window)(opens in new tab/window)

Chapter 09

Worksheet Function(opens in new tab/window)(opens in new tab/window)

Chapter 10

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

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.
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.
Where appropriate, demonstrates the differences between the PC and Mac versions of Excel.
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 QAT(opens in new tab/window)

Exercise 2: Customizing the Ribbon Control(opens in new tab/window)

Welcome to Excel 2016(opens in new tab/window)

Chapter 02

Copying Formulas What Happens to References(opens in new tab/window)

Exercise 1: Simple Arithmetic(opens in new tab/window)

Exercise 2: The Mathematical Operators(opens in new tab/window)

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

Exercise 4: Working with Fractions(opens in new tab/window)