Essential Mathcad for engineering, science, and math ISE / Brent Maxfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxfield, Brent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering mathematics--Data processing.

Engineering mathematics.

MathCAD.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (527 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier ; Burlington, MA : Academic Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using the author's considerable experience of applying Mathcad to engineering problems, Essential Mathcad introduces the most powerful functions and features of the software and teaches how to apply these to create comprehensive calculations for any quantitative subject. The simple, step-by-step approach makes this book an ideal Mathcad text for professional engineers as well as engineering , science, and math students. Examples from a variety of fields demonstrate the power and utility of Mathcad's tools, while also demonstrating how other software, such as Excel spreadsheets, can be incorpor

Contents:

Front Cover; Inside Front Cover; Chapter NaN: Mathcad 15.0 - Student Edition; Essential Mathcad for Engineering, Science, and Math ISE; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Book overview; Acknowledgement; Part I: Building Your Mathcad Toolbox; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Mathcad; Before You Begin; Editing Lines; Editing Expressions; Deleting and Replacing Operators; Toolbars; Greek Toolbar; Math Regions; Text Regions; Built-In Functions; User-Defined Functions; Units; Assigning Units to Numbers; Evaluating and Displaying Units; Arrays and Subscripts; Creating Arrays; Origin; Subscripts

Range VariablesPlotting: X-Y Plots; Graphing Toolbar; Setting Plotting Ranges; Programming, Symbolic Calculations, Solving, and Calculus; Resources Toolbar and My Site; Summary; Practice; Chapter 2: Variables and Regions; Rules for Naming Variables; String Variables; Regions; Text Regions; Controlling the Width of a Text Region; Additional Information About Math Regions; Replace; Summary; Chapter 3: Simple Functions; Examples of User-Defined Functions; Infix Operator; Warnings Tab; Warnings; Engineering Example 3.1: Column Buckling; Practice; Chapter 4: Units; Definitions

Changing the Default Unit SystemDerived Units; Units in User-Defined Functions; Units in Empirical Formulas; Dimensionless Units; Limitation of Units; Chapter 5: Arrays, Vectors, and Matrices; Using Range Values to Create Arrays; Displaying Arrays; Array functions; Engineering Examples; Chapter 6: Selected Mathcad Functions; Selected Functions; Default Text Styles; Custom Default Unit System; Truncation and Rounding Functions; Graphing Multiple Functions; Tables of Contents; Summation Operators; linterp Function; Miscellaneous Categories of Functions

Curve Fitting, Regression, and Data AnalysisChange in Temperature; Complex Numbers, Polar Coordinates, and Mapping Functions; Power Tools; Practice; Chapter 7: Plotting; Creating a Simple Polar plot; Setting Plotting Ranges; Traces Tab; Adobe Acrobat; Labels Tab; Plotting Data Points; Data Vectors; Using Plots for Finding Solutions to Problems; Parametric Plotting; 3D Plotting; Engineering Example 7.1: Shear, Moment, and Deflection Diagrams; Engineering Example 7.2: Determining the flow properties of a circular pipe flowing partially full; Input Parameters; Chapter 8: Simple Logic Programming

Boolean OperatorsUsing Conditional Programs to Make and Display Conclusions; Engineering Example 8.2; Summary; Practice; Chapter 9: Introduction to Symbolic Calculations; Float; Explicit; Using More than one Keyword; Additional Topics to Study; Practice; Chapter 10: Solving Engineering Equations; Using units; Engineering Examples; Engineering Example 10.1: Object in Motion; Microsoft Excel; Engineering Example 10.3: Pipe Network; Engineering Example 10.4: Chemistry; Engineering Example 10.5: Determining the Flow Properties of a Circular Pipe Flowing Partially Full

Engineering Example 10.6: Box Volume

Notes:

2nd ed. of Engineering with Mathcad : using Mathcad to create and organize your engineering calculations / Brent Maxfield.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612168338

0-08-091229-X

1-282-16833-9

OCLC:

601961950