Chapter 176 “Flawless Physics”

When talking about clubs, Wu Bin couldn't help but sigh that this University of Science and Technology really doesn't follow the ordinary path from inside to outside.

I heard from my cousin Han Zhong that although not everyone is trying to get into the college student union, there are also quite a few people who are racking their brains for it.

But HKUST does not exist.

What? Want to have a meeting after joining? Want to give a speech? Do you have to deal with daily student affairs?

Then come and help me with the general optical calculus of digital circuits and the American and Canadian C language homework? (Attached with a roll of eyes)

There is a legend circulating on campus that for the Yangcheng Universiade, various universities were looking for torchbearers. As a result, all other schools were represented by student unions. Only HKUST sent representatives from three sports associations. The scene was once embarrassing.

Communication is not smooth!

So in summary, Wu Bin personally thinks that it is no wonder that people say that if you are not bent on scientific research, it is better not to come to HKUST. The school atmosphere is really too little in terms of training in human relations and sophistication.

After dinner, Wu Bin and Lin Ziqi went to the library.

After adapting to the rhythm of the freshman year, Wu Bin also had his own understanding of course selection, and he spent the rest of his time in the library.

Ouch! The library of HKUST is really great. Every day, the study room and outside are full of people, and everyone is reading hard. It is quieter than the classroom of the third year of high school, and at the same time, it has a very learning atmosphere.

I really like the inside!

After consulting Professor Song Nanfeng, Wu Bin had a list of the four major mechanics in his hand, recording the related books that Professor Song considered must-read and recommended.

For Wu Bin, who knows a little bit about the four major mechanics, his choice is to quickly read all the must-read books first, and then slowly study in depth after understanding the core concepts.

After reading electrodynamics, classical electrodynamics and Maxwell's four equations, it seems that the whole world is described by them. The principle of relativity and the principle of constant speed of light in the special theory of relativity outline the new system in just a few strokes.

Moving on to thermodynamics and statistical physics, Wu Bin looked at the world from a new perspective, but before he could finish appreciating the wave function engineering, operator engineering, measurement engineering, dynamics engineering and isomorphism postulate of quantum mechanics Another physical building that is different from daily experience has risen from the ground.

Complete and beautiful.

[Physics is a complete and beautiful system]

This sentence has taken deep root in Wu Bin's heart. Ever since he started studying physics in high school, he has believed that everything has laws, and these laws can be easily deduced through a few assumptions.

But when Wu Bin told Song Nanfeng that he wanted to study superstring theory and asked him if he had any suggestions, Song Nanfeng asked him.

"Why do you want to study superstring theory?"

"Because physics should be the most flawless, I want to unify all physical theories."

Song Nanfeng laughed after hearing this, then looked up to the sky and sighed.

"When I was young, like you, I thought physics was perfect and impeccable. But as I studied more and more deeply, the most beautiful scenery in front of me was all shrouded in thick fog. I tried desperately to get rid of it. Thick fog, look how beautiful it is inside, but what greets me... is only darkness."

'What kind of despair is that...'

Listening to Professor Song Nanfeng's tone, Wu Bin couldn't help but feel a little shocked.

“70% of those doing physics in the world are studying condensed matter, but those doing superstring theory can be precise to a specific number, 1,046 people. This is a number calculated by Harvard University the year before last. Among these 1,046 people, there are now many I also did math."

"Since the discovery of string theory in 1930, the world of physics has never discovered anything again. This sentence means too many things. No one knows whether this path is right or wrong."

"Are you scared?" Seeing that Wu Bin didn't say a word, Song Nanfeng patted his shoulder.

"No, it's just a shock. In addition, everything you said, Professor, will become the source of motivation for me to continue moving forward on this road."

"Hahahahahaha..." Song Nanfeng suddenly burst out laughing, patted Wu Bin on the shoulder, and said something from the bottom of his heart: "If even you can't do it, then it probably only means that this road It’s wrong.”

…

Of course, but if he wants to study superstring theory and even take it a step further, Wu Bin's current knowledge is far from enough. He still has a lot to learn, a lot.

Lin Ziqi, who was flipping through a mechanics book, covered her mouth and yawned, then glanced at Wu Bin.

'Laughing again...'

Lin Ziqi couldn't help but shake her head. She was really curious about what kind of world was in the minds of people who could laugh when reading books like "Principle of Quantum Mechanics".

When it was time to eat in the evening, Wu Bin received a text message from Li Yan, saying that his student union had some matters to deal with and asked him to go eat first.

That's right, when almost no one was willing to go to the student union, Li Yan volunteered to join. After all, for him, college life just studying was too boring. Dealing with all kinds of people was the best. His fun part, of course, was that he did all this while he was sure to keep his grade point above 3.7.

Just as he was about to put away his phone, another text message was sent, from Gu Ningshan.

After coming to HKUST, Wu Bin was busy at first because he was familiar with the rhythm of the university. So after almost a week, Gu Ningshan took the initiative to come to their department to find him, and she was inevitably scolded as "cold-blooded" and "ruthless". "Thank you for giving me a book!"

Feeling guilty, Wu Bin immediately invited this "primary school girl" to a restaurant for a good meal to calm her down.

In the text message, Gu Ningshan told Wu Bin that she was going to eat and wanted to join him and discuss the semiconductors that he had not finished discussing last time.

In Wu Bin's eyes, only the word "semiconductor" was left in this text message, so he immediately replied, "See you in the east cafeteria!"

"Gu Ningshan said she wanted to eat with us." After packing his schoolbag, Wu Bin whispered to Lin Ziqi.

"Okay, got it." Lin Ziqi nodded, but sighed in her heart.

She had met this "primary school girl" who looked like a porcelain doll two weeks ago, and she had a good sense of her. After all, she was cute.

However, once she and Wu Bin started chatting, she could only act as a backdrop. There was no other way. The two of them were chatting like gods and couldn't get in the conversation at all, which made her wonder if she was a fake college student.

I rode my bike to the East Canteen. I greeted Gu Ningshan who arrived first at the door, and then the three of them walked into the canteen together.

After ordering the meal, Wu Bin said as soon as he sat down: "The DDR4 memory I mentioned last time..."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing Wu Bin's impatient look, Lin Ziqi immediately clapped her hands.

"What's wrong?" Wu Bin looked at her strangely.

Lin Ziqi's mind turned. In order to avoid being left alone, Lin Ziqi came up with a topic and looked at Gu Ningshan and asked: "Ningshan, I have been very curious about the Young Courtyard before. Can you tell me what the Young Courtyard is like?" Faculties, for example, how did you get in?"

After hearing this, Gu Ningshan nodded and returned: "Well, it's nothing special. As for how I got in, I took the written exams of physics and mathematics. There are mathematics IⅡ and physics IⅡ. II refers to all the contents of high school. Exam." He pressed his index finger and thumb together, "It's a bit competitive."

"What about I?" Lin Ziqi asked, taking a look at Wu Bin's expression next to her and found that he was also quite curious, waiting to listen with his eyes wide open.

"ⅠAh? ⅠThat's it. They let me take a one-hour college class first, and then they took a test on the taught content. During the test, I could read the notes I took during the class, but not anything else."

"Oh~ It's really interesting. What did you test at that time?"

"Mathematics taught me the limits of a sequence for an hour. It's not too difficult. It's almost equal to the first hundred questions from Jimmy Dovich, excluding the difficulty of the more difficult and abstract proof questions."

"..."

After eating some noodles to hide her embarrassment about her weakness in mathematics, Lin Ziqi then asked: "What about physics?"

"The difficulty of simple harmonic motion is about the same as that of Gao Miao. But at that time, someone seemed to ask dr/dt why d couldn't get rid of this problem, so the teacher asked him to go home and take a shower."

"It's really cruel..."

Naturally, Lin Ziqi had learned the simple harmonic oscillation from Gao Miao, but she didn't think it was simple at all! Isn’t it embarrassing for people to have to answer questions after speaking for an hour?

"Are there any other tests after passing the written test?" Wu Bin asked vaguely after taking a bite of the lion's head.

"Yes, there are interviews. There are both academic interviews and life interviews." Gu Ningshan said as she ate her food and recalled for a while, then continued: "The academic interview is when the math, physics and chemistry teacher takes turns asking me questions. I ask a few questions to see how the teacher feels. Anyway, I was majoring in mathematics, physics and chemistry."

"In mathematics, I was asked to draw a rough image of f(x)=xsin(1/x). In physics, I was asked to build a model to estimate the pressure of wind blowing on the wall. In chemistry... what is chemistry? Oh, by the way, let me Answer how acid rain is formed.”

"The life interview is a bit stupid. It feels like it's just a way to deal with the above. Asking me whether I liked making friends with others in my original school, my usual hobbies and so on, it's just boring..."

After hearing this, Lin Ziqi understood the school quite well. After all, children who were only in the third grade of junior high school were suddenly sent to college, so they still needed to take care of their psychological problems.

"Oh, that's right." Gu Ningshan, who was drinking soup, said as if she suddenly remembered something: "The physics II question was asked by Professor Ye. The third question was a multiple-choice question, and it was asked about the top university in physics in the country. which one."

"Pfft..." Wu Bin almost spit out his food, "Is this so childish!? What are the options?"

"Jinghua, Aurora, Zhejiang University and HKUST."

"Can you... not give Peking University this option? It's so cool."

Actually, HKUST... on the surface, they always say that they don't have many students, so they are not at the forefront of various rankings, and they don't care about such rankings.

But in 2010, someone made a statistics on the borrowing rankings of C9 and National Taiwan Chung Hsinchu University, and it went viral on major school forums. Among them, students from HKUST were particularly active. The reason is of course simple...

At that time, Peking University’s annual borrowing rankings were as follows.

1 Those things about the Ming Dynasty, when the moon was bright 284

2 Duku, Zhang Lixian 181

3 The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, Marx 153

4 The Deer and the Cauldron, Jin Yong, 138

5 Notes on Tomb Robbers, Third Uncle from the Southern Sect 138

6 Norton anthology of English literature /Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard) 136

7 Tibetan Code, Ho Ma 128

8 Tian Long Ba Bu, Jin Yong, 123

9 The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slaying, Jin Yong, 118

10 Longman Foreign Research Service New Concept English, Alexandria 118

11 Classical Electrodynamics, Jackson 116

…

The following Shanghai Jiao Tong University is similar. The first one is Tomb Raiders Notes, followed by Those Things in the Ming Dynasty and The Eight Parts of Demi-Gods.

As for the National Jinghua University in Taiwan... the previous ones are basically Dragon Clan, Tomb Raider Notes, and the Complete Works of Shen Congwen. You have to wait until the eighth grade to see books like Feynman's Lectures on Physics.

But Aurora and HKUST have completely different styles of painting, especially HKUST, whose borrowing rankings are like this.

1 Solutions to Thousand Problems in Electromagnetism, Zhang Zhixiang 182

2 Study Guide for Mathematical Physics Methods, Yao Duanzheng 129

3 Electromagnetism and Electrodynamics, Liu Jinying 113

4 Guide to solving problems using mathematical physics methods, Hu Sizhu 107

5 Solutions to Mathematical Analysis Exercises · 5, Mimidovich 94

6 Solutions to electrodynamics problems Lin Xuanying, Zhang Zhixiang 91

7 Atomic Physics, Yang Fujia 90

8 Solutions to Mathematical Analysis Exercises · IV, Mimidovich 84

9 Summary of linear algebra problem-solving methods and techniques, Mao Gangyuan 83

10 Fundamentals of Solid State Physics, Yan Shousheng 80

The painting style is simply a breath of fresh air in C9... so it was talked about at the time.

Smiling and shaking his head, Wu Bin continued to eat.

Lin Ziqi also covered her mouth and laughed for a while before continuing to ask: "Then if you want to enter HKUST, there is only one answer, right?"

"Yes~" Gu Ningshan spread her hands, "And after we reported, the first thing we did was take exams. We took English and Computer Science in the morning, and mathematics and physics in the afternoon. It's also very unique to HKUST."

"But our military training is much easier than yours. Excluding weekend breaks, we trained for about 8 days. We basically stood in the shade of a tree in a military posture for 15 minutes. Later, the instructor simply asked us to form a circle and sing."

"Wow! This is so happy!" Lin Ziqi said and stretched out her right arm with great resentment, "Look, this military training has exposed me, and I still haven't come back in vain."

"Didn't you put on sunscreen?" Wu Bin asked strangely.

"I applied it, but we were standing under the sun! Sunscreen can only play a very small role. Phew...it makes me feel uncomfortable just thinking about it. I don't know if it will be in vain."

"Actually, a little darker looks healthier. I think you look pretty like this."

"Ahem..." After hearing this, Lin Ziqi turned away and coughed, then turned back to stare at Wu Bin and said, "Why don't you feel that you are not that bad?"

Wu Bin touched his face and thought for a while, then said: "It must have been a little dark just after the training, but it came back in vain within a week."

"I don't want to talk to a European like you!" Lin Ziqi glanced at Wu Bin and continued to ask Gu Ningshan: "Isn't everything learned in the juvenile college difficult?"

"In terms of difficulty...it's not bad. It basically means smashing all the concepts I built up by reading books, then reconstructing them, smashing them again, reconstructing them again, and the cycle continues."

"Oh, by the way, Wu Bin." Gu Ningshan suddenly looked to the right.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Wu Bin, who was having a big meal, raised his head with a puzzled look on his face.

"Are you reading an English book now?"

"Yes, those in class."

"I recommend you to read New Oriental's books if you have time. Whether it is arXiv or TOEFL and IELTS, it will be very useful."

"Oh, okay." Wu Bin nodded and continued eating.