/sci/ - Science & Math

why the fuck do you choose that pic? i fucking hate the sight of it, and everyone who bumps this thread will be shoving that stupid fucking frog, right in my fucking face on the front page every fucking time!

>>3992555

>>3992555

On your period?
How's that blood taste

>>3992555
>doesnt like memes
>goes on 4chan

you are so fucking stupid, everything you say and do is retarded

bump for op

>>3992555
Challenge accepted!

And semiconductors are required to make transistors, which are required to make processors, so obviously as almost everything with electronics in it has processors nowadays (or at least transistors), semiconductors are used a lot.

Well, OP, silicon is useful to electronics because it can be "doped" (small amount of certain impurities added) to be more amenable to giving up electrons or taking in electrons. You can stack layers of differently doped silicon to create a transistor, harnessing this new property of the materials. This is a poor man's explanation; I'm not much of a physics person.
If you're interested in transistors, look them up.

>>Why are semiconductors used in industry so much?
They're trillions of times better than vacuum tubes.

>>Why was their discovery regarded as one of the best things to happen in the last century?
They're the fundamental component of all computers and other electronic devices.

>>Why are they used over normal conductors,what makes them so special?
Normal conductors can't do what they do. Basically a semiconductor is like a switch that is closed between two wires when there is electricity flowing through another wire. From that we can amplify signals or construct circuits which execute combinatorial logic.

>>3992598
>mfw a lot of the people here are such cunts they will always do the opposite of what i say
>mfw i should reverse psychology the fuck out of you all, and manipulate you to do my bidding, by pretending i desire the opposite

>>3992555

>>3992611
>implying you don't already make use of reverse psychology every day

>>3992611
Reverse psychology won't work: whenever I feel like someone wants me to do something, if I don't mind doing it anyway, I flip a coin. On head, I do it, on tail, I do the opposite. Almost surely I'll do something that annoys him/her if given an infinite amount of trials.

>>3992611
>>3992622
how long does it take you to change trips?

>>3992622
erm, nope. very rarely.

>>3992630
that just means you annoy everyone 50% of the time, no matter whether they use reverse psycology or not.

>>3992640
i never change it, it auto-writes into the box, so i dont even have to type in my tripcode (which is nice, seeing as its a random hash of letters, numbers, and punctuation, and would significantly slow down my posting speed if i kept having to write it)

>>3992640
...oh!
i just got it, you were accusing me of samefagging again.

>>3992672
>that just means you annoy everyone 50% of the time, no matter whether they use reverse psycology or not.
Exactly. Awesome, isn't it?