PHY 255W Physics in Modern Technology

Semester: Spring
Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite: Phy 121 - 123, or PHY 141-143.

This course is designed for science majors interested in the impact of science in modern technology and vice versa. Topics covered are microelectronics and their application to computers: the transistor, manufacture of the transistors and VLSI, computer architecture data representations. Communications: transmission of electromagnetic waves, information theory, noise in communication channels fiber optics communications, principles and properties of laser operation. Energy: solar enery. This course includes a writing component and can be used to satisfy part of the upper-level writing requirement.

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