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Outclassed - page 2 - WIP & PSD
🕑 Added 2021-11-13 15:05:08 +0000 UTCI don't normally make "vent" art but if anything I've done comes close to it, this is it. I'm not going to pass a value judgement on the situation but we've all been there, right?
Anyway, in order to make this comic I had to dig up notes from my quantum mechanics class from like 3 years ago to find an example exercise with an easy pitfall that a student that half-assed the subject would miss, and God, I don't remember anything. My computer engineering degree's program does this weird shit where you have to sit through quantum mechanics with the justification that there are a couple classes on PN junctions at the very end- just so you understand how transistors work. Which is completely abstracted in computer structure/architecture classes so there never was a point to having to learn Schroedinger's equation. So it is weird that the most use I've given this class is writing the setup for a gay furry comic.
I know the perspective fucking sucks on the rough sketch's last panel but I needed to have the diagram written down at the time because, again, I barely remember this stuff.
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Nanoff Yorbisnitz
Walter is being graded on calculating the boundary potential in a p-n junction, which is the electric tension that happens when you put p and n-type semiconductors together (which is useful since it allows electrical current to only flow through the junction in one direction, this is how transistors are built). Since you need to understand band theory to even start approaching the subject, yes, this would count as a college physics class. I wouldn't call this a final exam level question, but I don't really want to seriously sit down and remember how to solve a more complex exercise for the sake of making a more accurate scenario in a comic where the point is that the characters fuck. And yeah, not really interested in exploring the sex lives of people under 21.
Rodrigo
Ok, I stand corrected. Not physics though it certainly sounds like it. Nice subtle way to mention that the main character is college aged. x3
