Electricity
A simple vacuum tube consisting of three electrodes
What is a triode?
Pieces of information stored in computers.
What is data?
An electronic device that processes information using electric circuits.
What is a computer?
The smallest directly accessible unit of data in a computer.
What is a byte?
The largest computer network.
What is the internet?
The branch of the study of electricity that deals with the behavior and motion of electrons in a vacuum or in semiconductors.
What is electronics?
The actual physical components of a computer.
What is the hardware?
America's first mass-produced computer.
What is UNIVAC I?
The type of computer memory that is used for temporary storage.
What is RAM?
A semiconductor device that acts as a switch and amplifies a weak signal.
What is a transistor?
A semiconductor that lacks electrons.
What is a p-type semiconductor?
The stored information and instructions that direct a computer to perform certain tasks.
What is software?
A small, relatively inexpensive computer designed for use by one user.
What is a personal computer?
Instructions written in a programming language.
What is source code?
The type of data that can have any possible value within a specified range.
What is analog data?
The process of replacing atoms of a semiconductor with atoms of another element.
What is doping?
The part of a computer that controls all other systems of the computer.
What is the central processing unit?
Large computers designed to store and retrieve vast amount of information.
What are mainframes?
A collection of programs that contain instructions for displaying words and images on the screen for a user.
What is the operating system?
The most common type of transistor used today.
What is a field-effect transistor?
The process that produces an electric current in a vacuum using a heated cathode.
What is thermionic emission?
A single chip that contains a complete CPU
What is a microprocessor?
A large, extremely powerful computer designed for rapidly performing complex calculations.
What is a supercomputer?
Allows a computer to communicate with the outside world.
What is an input/output device?
A device that produces a single binary output based on one or more binary imputs.
What is the logic gate?