Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgment -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Why use Mathcad -- Don't give up your favorite engineering software -- Book overview -- Before you begin -- Part I: Building your Mathcad Toolbox -- Chapter 1. Variables -- Variables -- Types of variables -- Defining variables -- Rules for naming variables -- String variables -- Why use variables -- Guidelines for naming variables -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 2. Creating and editing Mathcad expressions -- Introduction -- Regions -- Math regions -- Text regions -- Creating simple math expressions -- Creating more complex expressions -- Editing expressions -- Wrapping equations -- Find and replace -- Inserting and deleting lines -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 3. Simple functions -- Built-in functions -- User-defined functions -- Examples of user-defined functions -- Warnings -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 4. Units! -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Changing the default unit system -- Assigning units to numbers -- Displaying derived units -- Custom default unit system -- Units of force and units of mass -- Creating custom units -- Units in equations -- Units in user-defined functions -- Units in empirical formulas -- Custom scaling units -- Dimensionless units -- Limitation of units -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 5. Mathcad settings -- Preferences dialog box -- Worksheet Options dialog box -- Result Format dialog box -- Automatic Calculation -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 6. Customizing Mathcad -- Default Mathcad styles -- Additional Mathcad styles -- Changing and creating new math styles -- Changing and creating new text styles -- Headers and footers -- Margins and Page Setup -- Toolbar customization -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 7. Templates -- Information saved in a template -- Mathcad templates.

Review of chapters 4, 5, and 6 -- Creating your own customized template -- Normal.xmct file -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 8. Useful information - Part I -- Variables -- CWD -- Information about Math regions -- Functions -- Tip of the day -- Part II: Hand Tools for your Mathcad Toolbox -- Chapter 9. Arrays, vectors, and matrices -- Creating vectors and matrices -- ORIGIN -- Array subscripts (subscript operator) -- Range variables -- Displaying arrays -- Using units with arrays -- Calculating with arrays -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 9.1 Using vectors in a user-defined function -- Engineering Example 9.2 Using vectors in expressions -- Engineering Example 9.3 Using matrices in functions and expressions -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 10. Selected Mathcad functions -- Review of built-in functions -- Toolbars -- Selected functions -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 11. Plotting -- Creating a simple X-Y QuickPlot -- Creating a simple Polar plot -- Using range variables -- Setting plotting ranges -- Graphing with units -- Graphing multiple functions -- Formatting plots -- Zooming -- Plotting data points -- Numeric display of plotted points (Trace) -- Using plots for finding solutions to problems -- Parametric plotting -- 3D plotting -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 12. Simple logic programming -- Introduction to the programming toolbar -- Creating a simple program -- Return operator -- Boolean operators -- Adding lines to a program -- Using conditional programs to make and display conclusions -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 13. Useful information - Part II -- Vectors and matrices -- Functions -- Plots -- Part III: Power Tools for your Mathcad Toolbox -- Chapter 14. Introduction to symbolic calculations -- Getting started with symbolic calculations -- Evaluate -- Float -- Expand, simplify, and factor -- Explicit.

Using more than one keyword -- Units with symbolic calculations -- Additional topics to study -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 15. Solving engineering equations -- ROOT function -- Polyroots function -- Solve Blocks using Given and Find -- lsolve function -- TOL, CTOL, and Minerr -- Using units -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 15.1 -- Engineering Example 15.2 -- Engineering Example 15.3 -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 16. Advanced programming -- Local definition -- Looping -- Break and continue operators -- Return operator -- On error operator -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 17. Useful information - Part III -- Calculus -- Functions -- Sources of additional information -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Part IV: Creating and Organizing your Engineering Calculations with Mathcad -- Chapter 18. Putting it all together -- Introduction -- Mathcad toolbox -- Hand tools -- Power tools -- Let's start building -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 19. Assembling calculations from standard calculation worksheets -- Copying regions from other Mathcad worksheets -- Creating standard calculation worksheets -- Protecting information -- Potential problems with inserting standard calculation worksheets and recommended solutions -- Guidelines -- How to use redefined variables in project calculations -- Using user-defined functions in standard calculation worksheets -- Using the reference function -- When to separate project calculation .les -- Using Find and Replace -- Mathcad Application Server and Designate -- Summary -- Chapter 20. Importing files from other programs into Mathcad -- Introduction -- Object linking and embedding (OLE) -- Common software applications that support OLE -- Summary -- Chapter 21. Communicating with other programs using components -- What is a component? -- Application components -- Data components -- Data Import Wizard component.

Scriptable Object component -- Inserting Mathcad into other applications -- Summary -- Chapter 22. Microsoft Excel component -- Introduction -- Inserting new Excel spreadsheets -- Using Excel within Mathcad -- Using units with Excel -- Inserting existing Excel files -- Summary -- Practice -- Chapter 23. Inputs and outputs -- Emphasizing input and output values -- Project calculation input -- Variable names -- Creating input for standard calculation worksheets -- Summarizing output -- Controls -- Summary -- Chapter 24. Hyperlinks and Table of Contents -- Hyperlinks -- Table of Contents -- Mathcad calculation E-book -- Summary -- Chapter 25. Conclusion -- Advantages of Mathcad -- Creating project calculations -- Additional resources -- Conclusion -- Index -- CD instructions.