Physics of a Processor???

For physics class I have to do a presentation on how a processor works, and somehow I have to relate it to physics. She said I could probly relate it to electro magnitism, but I have no idea.. Does anyone have any good sites for how a processor works or how it could be related to physics?

 

Processors ...

I did a report on them for my A level physics, basically you can talk about the current semi-conductor silicon based chips (i know thats to do with physics). You can also then go on to talk about the future and quantum computing and other things along those lines.

Howstuffworks.com is a great web site, check it out!

 

yeah do quantum computing, thats a most intreging topic

 

you may want to look at something called the little man computer. its quite an easy way of understanding how a processor works and what it does

 

You could always calculate the terminal velocity of a processor when thrown out of a window in frustration

 

LOL!


Yeah quantum computation is really interestign and easy to wirte about. You can go into as much detail as you like but its allway grounded in physics.

 

if you go the quantum route, check out http://www.qubit.org/

 

You could talk about the basics of a transistor.
Electron flow, current, voltage build-up, magnetics, fields, tempature, etc...

 

bah! Give it up stefan your gonna fail.... FAIL!!!!! muhahahaha



I dunno Im just rambling

 

when you drop a processor, it falls, this is down to gravity (or similar).


har har har my wit

 

presuming this is on earth i expect with an air resistance which is less than the force of gravity

may i refer you to newtons 3 laws of something or other