Required:

There are no required texts for this course. All course materials, problem sets and resources, including software user guides, will be distributed electronically. 

Additional Resources:

Although these texts are not required, your instructors may refer to these as a source of additional background materials and problems/exercises. You may find them useful.

Guide to Microsoft Excel 2002 for Scientists and Engineers by Bernhard V. Liengme, Newnes (2000). ISBN: 0750656131. Selected readings and problems will be assigned from this text.

Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide by E. Joseph Billo, Wiley-VCH 2^nd Ed. (2001). ISBN: 0471394629.

How to Use Excel in Analytical Chemistry and in General Scientific Data Analysis by Robert de Levie, Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN: 0521644844.

Excel for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition by S.C. Bloch, Wiley (2002). ISBN: 0471256862

Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis by Robert de Levie, Oxford University Press (2004). ISBN: 0195152751.

Data Analysis with Excel®: An Introduction for Physical Scientists by Les Kirkup, Cambridge University Press (2002). ISBN: 0521797373.

Mathematica Navigator : Mathematics, Statistics, and Graphics by Heikki Ruskeepaa, Academic Press (2004). ISBN: 012603642X.

The Student's Introduction to Mathematica : A Handbook for Precalculus, Calculus, and Linear Algebra by Bruce F. Torrence, Eve A. Torrence, Cambridge University Press (1999). ISBN: 0521594618.

Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Glass, Prentice-Hall  (1998). ISBN: 0132276127. 

Mathematica: A Practical Approach by Nancy Blachman and Colin Williams, Prentice-Hall PTR (1998). ISBN: 0132592010.  Selected readings and problems will be assigned from this text. 

Software:

All software to be used in the conduct of this course is installed in the computer lab, and may also be installed on your home computer or a laptop. For this course, we will be using:

Excel - available as part of the standard Office suite of software

Jaguar - available from Schrodinger (www.schrodinger.com); license is required, available from your instructor.

Macromodel - available from Schrodinger (www.schrodinger.com); license is required, available from your instructor.

ICM Browser - available from www.molsoft.com; no license required for browser; full version (installed on campus) requires a license.

Discovery Studio Visualizer - available from www.accelrys.com; no license required.

Mathematica  (requires registration on the Wolfram website http://www.wolfram.com- you will then receive a disk with the software to install at home; note, processing this takes aweek or more). The student version of Mathematica may be purchased for 1/10^th the cost of a single user copy through the Titan Bookstore.