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Animated Heat Transfer Modeling for the Average Joe – part #1
This the first tutorial on modeling heat transfer at a very introductory level. If you follow this series and spend your own effort in developing your own models you will be able to model heat...
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Animated Heat Transfer Modeling for the Average Joe – part #2
This is a continuation of the first part of the beginner series of tutorials in heat transfer modeling. The first part introduced the reader to the concept of heat capacity (being analogous to the...
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Animated Heat Transfer Modeling for the Average Joe – part #3
This section shows how to model heat transfer in a linear bar by dividing it in elementary sections in which the basic linear equations introduced in the previous tutorials can be used.
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Animated Heat Transfer Modeling for the Average Joe – part #4
This is the last tutorial of the series and it shows how to implement the previously derived formulas into a spreadsheet model. The spreadsheet formulas, the macros and charting of the dynamic data is...
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A 2D Random Walk Animation Tutorial
This tutorial explains how to build two animated random walk models, one where the particle is confined to square grid and one where the particle is free to step in any direction. The first model is...
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TRANSPOSE() & MMULT() – two important Excel spreadsheet functions for matrix...
This is a tutorial introducing two important matrix manipulation spreadsheet functions in Excel: the matrix transposition function TRANSPOSE() and the matrix multiplication function MMULT(). These...
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MDETERM() & MINVERSE() – two important Excel spreadsheet functions for matrix...
This is a brief tutorial showing how to calculate the determinant of a matrix and the inverse of a matrix using two special spreadsheet functions MDETERM() and MINVERSE().
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The Easy Way of Solving Systems of Linear Equations in Excel – using the...
This brief tutorial explains how to calculate the solution vector of a system of linear equations using the Excel spreadsheet function MINVERSE() which calculate the inverse of a matrix.
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Introduction to Anaglyph Stereoscopy in Excel – part #1: a more efficient...
I made a stereoscopic model in October last year, however, choosing the wrong colors (red and blue on a black background, the effect was very weak (if any). This series was suggested to me last week...
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Introduction to Anaglyph Stereoscopy in Excel – part #2: the principles of...
This tutorial explains the basic principles of creating and displaying anaglyph pictures.
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Introduction to Anaglyph Stereoscopy in Excel – part #3: a few analogies and...
This section of the tutorial gives few more real life applications of the stereoscopic vision and also derives the stereoscopic 3D-2D perspective conversion formulas. These formulas are based on the...
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Introduction to Anaglyph Stereoscopy in Excel – part #4: worksheet...
This is the final part of the anaglyph stereoscopy tutorial. This part deals with the prectical implementation of the concepts and formulas discussed before to create a 3D cube. You need 3D glasses to...
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Introduction to Anaglyph Stereoscopy in Excel – part #5: adding a joystick to...
In this section, a joystick is added to the model which controlls the yaw rate and the pitch rate (not the angles!) of the stereoscopic cube. This joystick was used before in a dedicated tutorial and...
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Excel Drawing – creating graphical object data
This tutorial will introduce the reader to creating simple drawings in Excel by using the “Freeform” auto shape. Later on, we will be able to convert this data in x-y-z vertex information for various...
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VertX – a Very Useful Macro for Extracting the Vertex Coordinates of...
Using autoshape freeforms is a very easy way to duplicate object outlines from pictures. It is convenient to create a freeform and once created, its vertices (points) can be edited with without...
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VertX – a Very Useful Macro for Extracting the Vertex Coordinates of...
The first macro created in this section of the tutorial improves on the previously developed macro by correcting the up-down orientation of the shape, referencing the shape position to the coordinate...
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How Do They Fly? – an intuitive look into lift generation and flight stability
Have you ever wondered why the flight attendants of a half empty airliner talk people into moving to the front half of the plane? Have you ever wondered why a flying wing can fly without a tail or why...
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Newton Generalized Treatment
Most of people have heard of Newton’s second law, mass, moment of inertia or the definition of the acceleration both linear and angular. The stuff presented here is elementary (9th grade), yet it is...
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Moment of Force and Torque Calculation
This is an addition to a previous post, introducing the reader to different ways of calculating the moment of a force and the torque of a couple. This information will be useful in aircraft dynamics...
View ArticleA Basic Planetary System – video preview
Since not everybody has Excel and more and more people are on the dumbed down new versions (2007 and 2010) I am presenting these previews to give the readers a feel of the real speed and feel of some...
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An Animated Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) as a Pseudo Random Pattern...
This is the first part of a tutorial (self, 2, 3) describing the creation of an animated Pseudo Random Number Generator model as a Fibonacci type Linear Feedback Shift Register in MS Excel 2003.
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An Animated Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) as a Pseudo Random Pattern...
This is the second part of a tutorial (1, self, 3) describing the creation of an animated Pseudo Random Number Generator model as a Fibonacci type Linear Feedback Shift Register in MS Excel 2003. This...
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Introduction to Digital Electronics – a Simplified Model for Logic Gates –...
This is the first part of a tutorial (self, 2, 3) about modeling logic gates in MS Excel 2003. This first model will include no delay or loading for the gates. The following type of gates will be...
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Introduction to Digital Electronics – a Simplified Model for Logic Gates –...
This is the second part of a tutorial targeted at modeling logic gates in MS Excel 2003. The first part introduced the basic logic gates,, symbols and associated logic equations. This model includes...
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Introduction to Digital Electronics – a Simplified Model for Logic Gates –...
This is the third part of a tutorial about modeling logic gates in MS Excel 2003. This first model includes no delay or loading for the gates. This section creates user defined functions for each gate...
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