When Physics Curriculum Takes A Spin

The DIY hot air balloon guide we never asked for but secretly needed! This stick figure genius demonstrates convection in its purest form—heat makes air rise, so naturally the next logical step is personal flight. The beautiful part? It's technically sound physics! Heated air is less dense than cooler air, creating buoyancy that's powerful enough to lift objects. The same principle powers real hot air balloons, just with slightly better engineering and significantly less trolling. The perfect weekend project for when you've exhausted all reasonable hobbies and decided that harnessing thermodynamics for questionable transportation is the next frontier.

Poor Homer is the lone "coulomb" in a bar full of "mA·h" (milliampere-hours)! This is basically the electrical engineering version of being the only sober person at a party. While everyone else is measuring battery capacity, Homer's stuck with measuring electric charge. It's like showing up to a basketball game with hockey equipment. The electrical engineers in the room are probably cackling right now while the rest of us wonder why Homer looks so uncomfortable. Next time you feel out of place, just remember—at least you're not a fundamental unit trapped in a sea of derived measurements!

Nothing ages you quite like breaking the entire classical model of physics! Poor Max Planck started as a dapper young gentleman, transformed into a wild-haired mad scientist during his quantum revelation, and ended up looking like he'd seen the universe's deepest secrets (and wished he hadn't). Planck literally invented quantum theory to solve the "ultraviolet catastrophe" problem, thinking it was just a mathematical trick. Then Einstein came along and said "Nope, light actually IS quantized!" and Planck was like "Wait, what have I done?!" His hair never recovered from the shock.

Just a cartoon dog contemplating existence while the universe marches toward inevitable heat death. Entropy—the measure of disorder in a system—constantly increases per the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Meanwhile, this unbothered canine philosopher has transcended existential dread with a "whatever happens, happens" attitude. Basically the thermodynamic equivalent of ignoring your lab's impending grant deadline while sipping coffee on a park bench. Pure chaos at the cosmic scale? Not my problem.

The ultimate quantum mechanics scam! This brilliant joke plays on Schrödinger's famous thought experiment where a cat in a sealed box with a radioactive trigger is theoretically both alive and dead simultaneously (quantum superposition) until observed. The punchline reveals the disappointment of opening the box to find the cat is just... a regular cat, existing in one definite state. The inclusion of uranium and a Geiger counter are the actual components from Schrödinger's setup, while the cat's wide-eyed expression perfectly captures the "I'm definitely alive and not in two states at once" energy. Physics bamboozled again by reality!

Four years of engineering education culminates in the profound diagnosis: "The engine is made out of engine." The gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application has never been so beautifully illustrated. Knowing the Carnot cycle doesn't help when your dad expects you to figure out why the car is making that weird noise. In the lab, we call this the "academic-to-reality conversion efficiency" - typically hovering around 0.001%.