Synopses & Reviews
Advanced chemistry textbook on use of spreadsheets in analytical chemistry.
Review
"...smoothly written, excellent tutorial about how such spreadsheets are created...very good book. No analytical chemistry teacher, no serious analytical chemistry student, should fail to acquire this book." The Chemical Educator
Synopsis
Because of their intuitive layout, extensive mathematical capabilities, and convenient graphics, spreadsheets provide an easy, straightforward route to scientific computing. This textbook for undergraduate and entry-level graduate chemistry and chemical engineering students uses Excel, the most powerful available spreadsheet package, to explore and solve problems in chemical analysis.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction to Using the Spreadsheet: 1. How to use Excel; Part II. Statistics and Related Methods: 2. Introduction to statistics; 3. More on least-squares; Part III. Chemical Equilibria: 4. Acids, bases, and salts; 5. Other ionic equilibria; Part IV. Instrumental Methods: 6. Spectrometry, chromatography, and voltammetry; Part V. Mathematical Methods: 7. Fourier transformation; 8. Standard mathematical tools; 9. Numerical simulation of chemical kinetics; Part VI. Spreadsheet Programming: 10. Macros.