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© 2010 Andrew Rich Using Microsoft Excel for Traffic Crash Reconstruction (3-Day Class) Ohio Traffic Accident Reconstruction Association March 21 to 23, 2011 Instructor: Andrew Rich, BSME, ACTAR. [email protected] Course Requirements & Prerequisites All students should have completed reconstruction or technical Recommended textbook (not required): Fundamentals of Traffic Crash Reconstruction by Daily, Shigemura & Daily All students must bring a scientific calculator All students must have access to a computer running Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010 Contact number for help (up to 11:00 p.m.) 201-410-4174 Tentative Schedule: Day 1 (morning) Introduction to Excel PowerPoint Writing formulas in Excel Statistics primer for Excel Introduction to Uncertainty and Sensitivity Walk-through of the Excel GUI Basic Spreadsheets Day 1 (afternoon) Basic spreadsheets continued

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© 2010 Andrew Rich

Using Microsoft Excel for Traffic Crash

Reconstruction (3-Day Class)

Ohio Traffic Accident Reconstruction Association

March 21 to 23, 2011

Instructor:

Andrew Rich, BSME, ACTAR. [email protected]

Course Requirements & Prerequisites

• All students should have completed reconstruction or technical

• Recommended textbook (not required): Fundamentals of Traffic

Crash Reconstruction by Daily, Shigemura & Daily

• All students must bring a scientific calculator

• All students must have access to a computer running Microsoft

Excel 2007 or 2010

Contact number for help (up to 11:00 p.m.) 201-410-4174

Tentative Schedule:

Day 1 (morning)

• Introduction to Excel PowerPoint

• Writing formulas in Excel

• Statistics primer for Excel

• Introduction to Uncertainty and Sensitivity

• Walk-through of the Excel GUI

• Basic Spreadsheets

Day 1 (afternoon)

• Basic spreadsheets continued

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© 2010 Andrew Rich

• Spin Analysis lecture and spreadsheet design

• Finite Differences lecture and spreadsheet design

• Homework assigned: create a spreadsheet to solve a momentum

reconstruction to include finite differences sensitivity

analysis.

Day 2 (morning)

• Homework review

• Monte Carlo lecture and spreadsheet design

• CRASH3 Review

• Stiffness Calculator spreadsheet (Convert function)

• Crash3 Spreadsheet

Day 2 (afternoon)

• Dennis Wood’s pole equation

• The if() function

• Option Buttons/Groups

• User-defined functions

• PCM data lecture (no RDS)—Hosting agency may ask for substitution

• Spreadsheet design for PCM data—Hosting agency may ask for

substitution

• Homework assigned: Create a chart to show the sensitivity of the

CSF to uncertainties in the middle ordinate measurement.

Day 3 (morning)

• Homework review

• Creating dialog boxes

Day 3 (afternoon)

• Simultaneous equations lecture

• Solving simultaneous equations with Excel