Chapter 298 Gold Rush

"I recently registered an account on Zhihu. For some reason, a lot of people follow me. In the next few days, I often received private messages from netizens."

“Many of them want me to recommend better textbooks or related books on physics.”

"So, I recommended "College Physics" written by Professor Zhang Sanhui to netizens who are still high school students. In my opinion, this book is very simple and easy to understand, and it is very close to high school physics. It is not easy to finish reading it. It takes a lot of time.”

"In addition, there is "Mechanics" compiled by teacher Shu Yousheng, which is also a good introductory material for mechanics. I read this book when I was competing in high school and benefited a lot."

"For those netizens who have already chosen the physics major, I recommend Feynman's Lectures on Physics to them. I believe everyone here has heard of this book. It can be called a classic of the century. There are three volumes in the complete set, but there is almost no chance of getting stuck while reading.”

"But then something puzzling to me happened. Many of those who asked asked me a second question, which was where to download the electronic versions of these books."

"My first reaction after reading was a little surprised, because these books, whether physical or electronic, are really easy to find in today's Internet age where excellent resources are so public. I don't know why, but it reminded me of Mr. Lu Xun who abandoned medicine and became a Wen’s story.”

"From my point of view, if there is a lack of excellent learning materials for undergraduates to learn on the Internet, it is because the education sector and people who care about education have not done a good job. If there are ready-made materials online, but students do not look for them, That’s the tragedy of students.”

"In addition, I have also recommended some relatively niche physics literature. Because they are relatively professional, it is not easy to find them by searching on Baidu. But if you are careful enough, you can definitely find them in half an hour and an hour. turn up."

"But some netizens think that his time is so precious, why should he waste an hour looking for it. This made me feel deeply about today's speech."

"Knowledge is not only valuable, but also precious. If you are too lazy to look for it in such a convenient environment, then I can only say that it is probably because we are different and we do not work together."

Speaking of this, Wu Bin took a deep breath and changed his tone and continued: "The reason why I share this is because I found that even in HKUST, there are many freshmen who are experiencing drastic changes from high school to university. This change is Everyone is beginning to feel the importance of self-study and its helplessness.”

"In high school, there will be teachers who will catch you studying and want to pour all the knowledge of each subject into your mind. But in college, teachers will teach very quickly, and at the same time, there will not be a top student from the sky who will take the initiative to help you. .”

"In this case, many students who were used to asking questions began to let themselves go. They did not take the initiative to ask, but just put the questions aside. It was not until they were about to graduate that they discovered that these questions were far beyond what they expected. Knowledge learned.”

"From my own experience, studying in college is like panning for gold. To find gold, you need not only luck, but also the perseverance and persistence to find it. No one will take the initiative to tell you where the gold is, so you can only find it yourself. Summarize as you search, and slowly understand how to find more gold.”

"As the ancients said, after playing a thousand tunes, the sound will dawn; after watching a thousand swords, you will know the weapon."

"Viewing Thousand Swords requires time cost. When you look at each sword, you have to complete an independent thinking, which requires mental cost. There are always people who want to skip the process of viewing Thousand Swords and directly appreciate the top ten famous swords such as Xuanyuan and Longquan. , However, people who do this can only observe its form in the end, but cannot understand its essence."

"Ahem...did you say too much?"

Wu Bin believes that most people still don't like to listen to speeches for too long, because most of the time it feels smelly and long.

But the answer to Wu Bin's question was a burst of applause, which was also mixed with a few words such as "Senior said that well." "It's not much, but it's still too little!"

"Thank you for your affirmation." Wu Bin smiled and nodded at everyone, "But I have expressed almost everything I wanted to say. Finally, as a graduate, I would like to give some more specific suggestions to the freshmen."

"First, ninety-nine percent of the learning problems you encounter are not new problems. You can basically find some clues by reading a few more books or searching online."

"Second, basically three consecutive steps, copy books, read a few more textbooks for cross comparison, search on Google, and add English keywords to PDF. This can solve almost 95% of learning problems."

"Third, again, I hope everyone can understand that there is a cost to searching for knowledge independently. I believe that many freshmen may not be able to accept this concept for the time being, but this is the reality, and it will always be with you from your freshman year. Until you get used to it.”

"This is my learning experience. Finally, I wish you all can spend the most meaningful four years in your life at HKUST."

"Pah, pah, pah, pah..."