On 16 Jun 2008 22:03:32 GMT, Martin Durkin
 wrote:

>rf10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) wrote in news:g3484a$kbe$7
>@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk:
>
>
>> i don't believe we require physics any more.  we're increasingly tying
>> up with bioengineers, for which one needs genetics, or something.
>> 
>> we do have a hardware design component to the course, and an energetic
>> chip design research group, but afaict, school physics doesn't help
>> there.
>> 
>
>I don't think anything from school helped with chip design. I seem to 
>remember something about Fermi-Dirac statistics and other complicated 
>stuff. In fact the only thing I really remember is "Graded bases make finer 
>transistors", and I'm not entirely sure what that means anymore.
>
ITYM "Graded grains make finer flour"

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Jo