Physics A-Level
Product term
What Product term means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Product term
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A term that is true only for one row of a truth table, written using AND gates and NOT gates for inputs that are 0.
Topics that use Product term
- Combinational logic (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Gates as functional building blocks
- AND
- Boolean algebra
- Combinational circuit construction
- EOR
- NOT
- Scope of the specification
- Standard truth tables of logic gates
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