- 600 pages
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The technology behind computers, fiber optics, and networks did not originate in the minds of engineers attempting to build an Internet. The Internet is a culmination of intellectual work by thousands of minds spanning hundreds of years. We have built concept upon concept and technology upon technology to arrive at where we are today, in a world co
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- To the Student
- To the Instructor
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Physics and Its Relation to Computer and Internet Technologies
- Chapter 2. Mathematics: The Language of Science and Technology
- Chapter 3. Mechanics: Energy Enables Information Technology
- Chapter 4. Matter and Heat: Cooling Computers Is Required by the Physics of Computation
- Chapter 5. Electricity and Magnetism: The Workhorses of Information Technology
- Chapter 6. Digital Electronics and Computer Logic
- Chapter 7. Waves: Sound, Radio, and Light
- Chapter 8. Analog and Digital Communication
- Chapter 9. Quantum Physics of Atoms and Materials
- Chapter 10. Semiconductor Physics: Transistors and Circuits
- Chapter 11. Digital Memory and Computers
- Chapter 12. Photons: Light Detectors and Light-Emitting Diodes
- Chapter 13. Light and Optical Fibers for the Internet
- Chapter 14. Light Amplification and Lasers
- Chapter 15. Fiber-Optics Communication
- Chapter 16. Communication Networks and the Internet
- Summary of Scientific Notation, Units, and Physical Constants
- Sources and Credits for Quotes Used With Permission
- Glossary
- Index
- Back cover