Modelling physics with Microsoft Excel /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2014]
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| Series: | IOP concise physics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | This book demonstrates some of the ways in which Microsoft Excel may be used to solve numerical problems in the field of physics. But why use Excel in the first place? Certainly Excel is never going to out-perform the wonderful symbolic algebra tools that we have today - Mathematica, Mathcad, Maple, MATLAB, etc. However, from a pedagogical stance Excel has the advantage of not being a 'black box' approach to problem solving. The user must do a lot more work than just call up a function. The intermediate steps in a calculation are displayed on the worksheet. Another advantage is the somewhat less steep learning curve. This book shows Excel in action in various areas within Physics. Some Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) has been introduced, the purpose here is to show how the power of Excel can be greatly extended and hopefully to whet the appetite of a few readers to get familiar with the power of VBA. Those with programming experience in any other language should be able to follow the code. |
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| Item Description: | "Version: 20141001"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"-Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print. |
| Format: | "The workbooks for this project were made using Excel 2013 but they should all work with the earlier Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 versions" --Preface. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Audience: | Professional and scholarly. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781627054195 |