CHE 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Graphical User Interface, Ideal Gas Law, Visicalc
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Spreadsheets mimic the business ledgers that used to be employed by businesses to keep track of inventory and accounts. Visicalc (apple) was possibly the first spreadsheet software for use on small computers. It was quickly replaced by ibm"s first killer app for. Eventually lotus 1-2-3 gave way to the graphical user interface microsoft introduced with windows 3. 0 and applications like word and excel. Coming from the business world early spreadsheet applications lacked the ability to do scientific calculations and produce technical plots. Eventually though, applications like excel matured into complete engineering and scientific calculation packages. In this lecture we began to prepare a worksheet in a workbook (excel document) to calculate pressures of a gas using the ideal gas law as well as the dieterici equation of state. The goal of the exercise is to understand excel basics. Once the document is open, we can see that a basic excel worksheet is comprised of a grid of rows and columns.