The Week of March 1

• Homework: Plot something using Excel. Find some data (the high and low temperatures for a few days, stock prices, batting averages, data from another class, anything you can think of) and plot it in a meaningful way using Excel. Do not copy anything straight out of the Excel book. Your chart should have a title and/or its axes labeled. If it has a legend, the legend should be meaningful (i.e. it better not say "Series 1, Series 2" which is the default in Excel). Hand in a printout of your Excel spreadsheet.

• Reading: You might read about absolute versus relative addressing and the IF function in Microsoft Excel 97 (Shelly, Cashman and Quasney), 3.23-3.27. We probably won't get to them this week, but they are topics that take some getting used to.

• Monday: Excel demo: xy plots and fits.

• Wednesday: Lab on xy plots and fits.

• Friday: Lab on xy plots and fits.