Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Chapter 1, Problem 51P
The semiconductor chip at the heart of a personal computer is a square 4 mm on a side and contains 1010 electronic components.
- (a) What’s the size of each component, assuming they’re square?
- (b) If a calculation requires that electrical impulses traverse 104 components on the chip, each a million times, how many such calculations can the computer perform each second? (Hint: The maximum speed of an electrical impulse is about two-thirds the
speed of light .)
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