One of my kids took Applied Physics (AP) in college. Ok, so she wants to be an “Einstein” – that’s what I thought. She often makes her college notes available to us (parents). As expected, I saw notes on forces, space-time, Inertia, and other Physics’ terminologies.

Lately I saw some notes on processor programming, terms such logic gates, asynchronous CPUs, ALUs, and lots of machine language programming notes – all relating to studies of computers.

What AP is doing in studies of microprocessors or computers? I thought these are all the sole domain of Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

I don’t think she has changed her college course.