TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to the wonderful world of Mathcad. If this is your first time using Mathcad, then you are in for a real treat. You will soon see how easy it is to start using Mathcad anytime you need to do simple or complex calculations. If you are an experienced Mathcad user, this book is intended to give you new perspectives to increase your Mathcad productivity.
New users will benefit by quickly getting up-to-speed, and by learning easy-to-use Mathcad functions. The more advanced and complicated Mathcad elements are discussed in later chapters. Experienced Mathcad users will benefit by learning how to use Mathcad to better organize and create engineering calculations.
Mathcad is a very powerful interactive worksheet that utilizes standard math notation and equation entry to solve problems. It is easy to learn, and no programming is required to use it. It immediately returns and updates results.
This book is directly focused toward engineers, scientists, engineering and science students, and others performing technical calculations. Its purpose is to quickly teach basic Mathcad skills, teach some very useful and powerful features and then teach how to apply these features to create and organize comprehensive technical calculations even calculations created from other software programs.
Mathcad has hundreds of features and functions, many of which are very complex and high-power math functions. In general, practicing engineers use only a small percentage of these functions. It takes a considerable amount of time to sort through all the Mathcad features and determine which ones are going...
