Physics for Computer Science Students: With Emphasis on Atomic and Semiconductor PhysicsSpringer Science & Business Media, 2012 M12 6 - 532 pages This text is the product of several years' effort to develop a course to fill a specific educational gap. It is our belief that computer science students should know how a computer works, particularly in light of rapidly changing tech nologies. The text was designed for computer science students who have a calculus background but have not necessarily taken prior physics courses. However, it is clearly not limited to these students. Anyone who has had first-year physics can start with Chapter 17. This includes all science and engineering students who would like a survey course of the ideas, theories, and experiments that made our modern electronics age possible. This textbook is meant to be used in a two-semester sequence. Chapters 1 through 16 can be covered during the first semester, and Chapters 17 through 28 in the second semester. At Queens College, where preliminary drafts have been used, the material is presented in three lecture periods (50 minutes each) and one recitation period per week, 15 weeks per semester. The lecture and recitation are complemented by a two-hour laboratory period per week for the first semester and a two-hour laboratory period biweekly for the second semester. |
Contents
1 | |
Uniformly Accelerated Motion | 20 |
Momentum and Collisions | 67 |
CHAPTER 16 | 88 |
Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Concept | 111 |
Work Energy and Power | 149 |
The Electric Field and | 187 |
Waves | 227 |
Crystal Structures and Bonding in Solids | 347 |
Free Electron Theories of Solids | 361 |
Band Theory of Solids 395 | 394 |
Semiconductor Devices | 453 |
Some Basic Logic Circuits of Computers | 481 |
9 | 499 |
The Technology of Manufacturing | 503 |
15 | 514 |
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