Formulas Book 5th Edition
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Formulas book
I am 84 years old and still working on new editions of a couple of my published engineering books (Elsevier Sciences). Our most popular book is the “Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover”. My co-author (Tom Carter) and I are trying to get a new 5th Edition published before something happens to either one of us. Tom Carter is a youngster though at 72 years old. Anyway, this book is used a great deal by field workers who carry Samsung smart analog cell phones that have our e-book version loaded on them. Up till the 4th Edition, they could get to our example calculations on the phone and then use the calculator on their phones to make a new calculation for their particular field situation (i.e., punching in each number while following the book’s example). Very tricky with one phone I think. When we started on this new book and e-book the companies that use this book requested that we create the new e-book with solution tables that are active and can be used by the field folks directly on their phone. Such tables could be used by field folks to much more simply find a new field solution. This would be accomplished by simply changing the input values in the active tables to get their new Excel output answers. That is what we are doing with all our new 5th Edition Formulas e-book. My co-author Tom is younger and has worked with the Excel formulas programing within the past decade or so. I’ve worked with them, but about 20 years ago. Tom is pretty much completed his active Excel tables. I have been working on my Chapter 8 sections, but have only completed one simple Table 8.1. More importantly, my eyes are beginning to make mistakes with numbers both on the computer and in transferring computer numbers to text in the new written book version (and thus the e-book version). I am asking your service to create the new active Excel Tables 8.1 through Table 8.6. I have attached all the materials I think you all will require to do this job. The attached is a copy of the ‘Ch8 print’, from the 4th Edition which shows all examples written out and where the new active Tables 8.1 to 8.6 will go in the new 5th Edition text. Also attached is a copy of my ‘Draft Notes of 4 Ed’ that are my early notes of that Chapter 8 which should help (notes pages 12 and 13). I was successful for my Table 8.1 so that you have an active table example. Also, given are other example tables for Chapter 2 to give you an idea of where we are going with these active tables.
P. S. Even though Tom Carter has completed most of his chapter’s active tables, he has a problem deep in his Chapter 7. Can someone put the solution of the directional drilling Dogleg Severity DSL on to a similar active Excel Spreadsheet and Table 7-X.
Thanks William C. Lyons
I am 84 years old and still working on new editions of a couple of my published engineering books (Elsevier Sciences). Our most popular book is the “Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover”. My co-author (Tom Carter) and I are trying to get a new 5th Edition published before something happens to either one of us. Tom Carter is a youngster though at 72 years old. Anyway, this book is used a great deal by field workers who carry Samsung smart analog cell phones that have our e-book version loaded on them. Up till the 4th Edition, they could get to our example calculations on the phone and then use the calculator on their phones to make a new calculation for their particular field situation (i.e., punching in each number while following the book’s example). Very tricky with one phone I think. When we started on this new book and e-book the companies that use this book requested that we create the new e-book with solution tables that are active and can be used by the field folks directly on their phone. Such tables could be used by field folks to much more simply find a new field solution. This would be accomplished by simply changing the input values in the active tables to get their new Excel output answers. That is what we are doing with all our new 5th Edition Formulas e-book. My co-author Tom is younger and has worked with the Excel formulas programing within the past decade or so. I’ve worked with them, but about 20 years ago. Tom is pretty much completed his active Excel tables. I have been working on my Chapter 8 sections, but have only completed one simple Table 8.1. More importantly, my eyes are beginning to make mistakes with numbers both on the computer and in transferring computer numbers to text in the new written book version (and thus the e-book version). I am asking your service to create the new active Excel Tables 8.1 through Table 8.6. I have attached all the materials I think you all will require to do this job. The attached is a copy of the ‘Ch8 print’, from the 4th Edition which shows all examples written out and where the new active Tables 8.1 to 8.6 will go in the new 5th Edition text. Also attached is a copy of my ‘Draft Notes of 4 Ed’ that are my early notes of that Chapter 8 which should help (notes pages 12 and 13). I was successful for my Table 8.1 so that you have an active table example. Also, given are other example tables for Chapter 2 to give you an idea of where we are going with these active tables.
P. S. Even though Tom Carter has completed most of his chapter’s active tables, he has a problem deep in his Chapter 7. Can someone put the solution of the directional drilling Dogleg Severity DSL on to a similar active Excel Spreadsheet and Table 7-X.
Thanks William C. Lyons