Physics for Computer Science Students: With Emphasis on Atomic and Semiconductor Physics

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Springer 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

Physical Quantities
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

CHAPTER 17
242
CHAPTER 19
280
CHAPTER 20
298
Quantum Mechanics of Atoms
321
Photo Credits 519
518
298
520
30
526
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