Modelling applications of spreadsheets [in engineering]

Spreadsheets are essentially software packages for carrying out operations on rows and columns of numerical values. Although originally a financial modelling tool, they also have many applications in modelling engineering systems. The authors show that most commercially available spreadsheets are well provided with trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions, as well as with a range of arithmetic and logic operations for combining such functions. As a result, a spreadsheet is often a quick and convenient way of carrying out many types of calculation which commonly occur in electronics, telecommunications and control engineering. Furthermore, the standard graphics packages normally provided with spreadsheets make it particularly easy to display and use the results of such calculations