Chapter 168 The Competition Is Over

Before the experimental competition the next day, Wu Bin took a special look at the Western brothers who invited them to the party and found that they were all in good spirits and showed no signs of hangovers. This made him sincerely curious about what Western High School was like. Magical place.

The students were divided into two groups for the experimental questions. Wu Bin was in the morning group, so he entered the laboratory early to prepare.

There are two experimental questions in total, the first one is titled [Diffraction caused by spiral structure]

The famous X-ray diffraction image taken by Rosalind Franklin in the laboratory is called "Photograph 51"

And later became the basis for Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1952.

In order to help candidates understand, this experiment specifically used the diffraction pattern produced by irradiating the spiral structure with visible light.

In addition to the test questions, there are also experimental devices such as laser source, DC stabilized power supply, left and right reflectors, digital vernier caliper, 1.5m tape measure, laser protective glasses, etc.

'Determine the geometric parameters of the spiral spring...'

After reading the requirements of Experiment A, Wu Bin began to detect a pair of guide rails, lasers and reflectors fixed on the wooden platform.

'Well, the laser wavelength of the laser source is λ = 635nm. The laser and the bearing are connected and fixed on a metal bracket that can be adjusted in the x-y-z direction...'

After testing all the experimental devices, Wu Bin began to examine the spiral spring as a sample.

‘The radius R, the period P, and the uniform thickness of the line is a. ’

Then he took a vertical look and made sure all the lines were the same thickness.

‘The distance between them is d, and the angle between the two groups is 2a’

Nodding thoughtfully, Wu Bin fixed the spring on the sample holder.

What follows is a smooth operation.

Adjust the laser beam focus and beam direction, press the switch on the power supply to change the laser intensity to high...

[Determine a by the ratio of (xn-x-n) and n, and obtain the straight line slope of Figure A1 by the least squares method or the graphing method as kA1= 23.55mm, a=kA 2/1 λD=2/23.25x0.000635x2770=0.151mm ...]

After recording the relevant distances measured by the digital vernier caliper one by one, Wu Bin began to draw the map.

…

But Wu Bin didn't know that when he was so fluent, several professors responsible for wandering around and invigilating the exam were almost dumbfounded.

‘This Chinese student doesn’t need to think! ? ’

‘This is a leak! ? No, I don’t dare to do it so blatantly and quickly. ’

‘Wait a minute… isn’t this guy the same guy who ate snacks during the second half of yesterday’s theory test? What kind of little monster did China send this year? ’

…

When several professors were so surprised that they all focused their attention on Wu Bin, Wu Bin had already completed the requirements of Experiment A and began to conduct Experiment B to determine the collective parameters of a double helix structure pattern.

'HOLY...'

After feeling a headache, several professors stopped looking at Wu Bin and went to patrol other candidates.

After all, at Wu Bin's speed, he either knew the topic in advance, which was not their responsibility, or he had already gone through the experiment completely in his mind, and all that was left was to complete it. There was really nothing interesting to see.

However, the facts are indeed as expected by several professors. Experimental questions have always been Wu Bin's good point, and he did not relax about experimental questions just because he was good at experimental questions. On the contrary, during his days in the training camp, absolutely most of them You spend all your time in the laboratory, why?

Because it’s fun!

For Wu Bin, the pleasure of a successful experiment was even greater than the pleasure of solving a difficult problem, which made him want to stop.

After completing the first experimental question smoothly, Wu Bin looked at the second one.

[Diffraction caused by surface tension waves of water]

On the liquid surface, the formation and propagation of waves have always been a very important and widely studied phenomenon. In 1979, G. Weisbuch et al. first proposed the use of liquid surface waves to diffract line-of-sight light, and thus established surface tension. Optical measurement method, for this kind of wave, the restoring force of the oscillating liquid is partly gravity and partly surface tension...

After reading the huge question, Wu Bin couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

‘Professor Song’s translation skills are really solid. ’

In competitions such as IMO or IPHO, the team leader’s translation skills can be said to play a very critical role.

In previous competitions, there are definitely not a few candidates who overturned because the team leader did not translate well enough. Students from some countries even chose the English version of the topic with tears in their eyes after reading the native language translation by their team leader, without knowing the word "MMP" in their hearts. To whom to say.

After reading the question, Wu Bin operated the tablet computer with the sine wave generator program installed, then unplugged the black laser wire and inserted the white laser wire into the DC power jack.

Because the test question marked Laser 2, that is, the white laser had been adjusted to a special incident angle, Wu Bin stopped touching it.

After another skilled operation, Wu Bin completed the adjustment of the experimental device and began to measure the angle θ between the laser beam and the water surface.

"how come..."

Seeing that Wu Bin had started to use the second set of experimental equipment, an American brother next to him was about to lose his temper. He was still recording the second question of the first experimental question, okay? Is the gap really that big? ?

Wiping the sweat from his head, the big American brother made a sign of the cross on his chest, continued his experiment, and vowed never to look at the next door again.

[0.069.θ=4.0°] After filling in the slope of the straight line in the experimental data, Wu Bin began to do the last experiment to determine the surface tension σ of the given water sample.

‘Tsk… The experimental questions of the international competition are really interesting. It’s a pity that they have to be completed so soon. ’

While Wu Bin was calculating the relationship, he felt a pity in his heart, and then went to draw a graph for the variables.

"call……"

An hour later, Wu Bin breathed a long sigh of relief, took a bite of the cake provided by the organizer, and savored the sweetness in his mouth and the refreshing feeling of completing the experimental questions.

"Cool……"

Hearing Wu Bin's voice, the big American brother next door couldn't help but turned around and looked at him, and then silently recited a word starting with F.

Although he couldn't understand what Wu Bin said, Wu Bin's expression told him that he was in a very good mood now.

'Are all Chinese so perverted...'

After crossing himself again on his chest, the big American brother continued to record his data.

…

When the invigilator professor announced the end of the experimental questions, Wu Bin found that there were still many candidates whose experiments had not been completed, which reminded him of what senior brother Wang Gaojie said to him yesterday.

"Do you think every country is like China, which has preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals, and finally selects the top five from the national team training camp to compete?"

"No! Many countries select five representatives in just two rounds, but this is also related to their population base."

Although in the 21st century, many things no longer rely on strength of numbers, the population base is still a huge national advantage. Take China, for example, when it breaks away from the shackles of food stamps, it is tantamount to announcing to the world .

"I can already support 1.1 billion people. Everyone in front should wash their necks and wait for me to catch up!"

If you can't find a genius among 10 people, then choose from 100 people. If you can't choose a genius from 100 people, then choose from 1,000 people!

This is the biggest advantage of a country with a large population, and this advantage covers almost all aspects.

As soon as he walked out of the laboratory, Wu Bin felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned his head and found that it was the American brother who was doing the experiment next to him just now.

"incredible"

The big American brother gave Wu Bin a thumbs up, then turned and left.

"Thanks!"

After saying thank you, Wu Bin happily walked forward, but was grabbed by Gong Chengwei again, and said with a smile: "What have you done? Even the Americans say you are incredible."

"It's faster to do the experimental questions."

"Cowhide, cowhide." After sighing, Gong Chengwei talked back to the competition: "Although I didn't take the electric test, the two experimental questions today were quite interesting."

Wu Bin nodded and said, "Well, you think so too. I felt quite unsatisfied when I finished it."

"No, no, no, I'm not as perverted as you. I just said it was interesting. I'll be exhausted when I finish it, okay?"

While the two were chatting, Zhang Fu also came over and complained: "I am... Mao Zi is really insidious."

"What do you mean?" Wu Bin asked strangely.

"Damn it...I didn't even notice that there were hairy girls participating in the competition before. They were standing next to me just now. Let me tell you, they are a really good-looking group."

"Is your mind messed up?" Gong Chengwei glanced at him and asked.

"Isn't that right...I almost remembered the data wrong, okay?" Zhang Fu said and patted his chest. "Fortunately, I immediately recited the Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces three times before I stabilized my mind, otherwise I would have really failed this time. This hairy girl has it on her hands."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Wu Bin and Gong Chengwei laughed after hearing this.

Since there were only three of them in the morning session, they stopped waiting for others and went to the waiting room designated by the organizer.

In the evening, after all the experimental questions of the afternoon group were finished, Wu Bin discovered that the performance of the Western brothers in the previous two days was actually quite restrained, according to their words.

"I was a little nervous before the exam and couldn't relax."

As soon as the exam was over, he immediately got really high. A Maozi brother came over with two cups and hooked Wu Bin's neck from behind and said: "Vo~~~~~dka"

Just when Wu Bin was about to refuse, a group of candidates suddenly started shouting, "OH!" "OH!" "OH!"

Seeing Wang Gaojie coming to help, Wu Bin waved to him, took the vodka from Brother Maozi's hand and said in English, "I did it, you can do whatever you want."

joke! Wu Bin was also the one who drank all night with his dad, okay? Just vodka, fuck him!

After drinking half a glass of vodka in one gulp, Wu Bin let out a big sip of alcohol.

It caused a burst of cheers from the people around him.

Brother Maozi was very happy to see Wu Bin giving him face like this. He decisively drank up the other glass of vodka in his hand and gave Wu Bin a thumbs up.

To put it bluntly, he mainly came here to make friends, not to persuade him to drink, so after drinking, he started to introduce himself and said his name was Oleg, which almost made Wu Bin laugh.

A group of people went crazy. They played high all night. Wu Bin also drank a lot. He burped and went to find a few other teammates, only to find that Zhang Fu had already been high and was standing on the "dance floor" on the grass to fight against the West. The big brothers squirmed together.

The other few people, Wu Bin, were not seen and did not know where they went.

It wasn't until the next morning that I found out that they had gone to play poker with some big Nordic brothers and won a lot of their coins. Of course, after the game was over, Gong Chengwei and the others also gave the big Nordic brothers a few yuan and 50 cent coins. .

After all, their original intention was not to gamble, just to have fun.

During the exam period, the organizers arranged tours, not to mention after the exam, Wu Bin and the others were led to visit many famous attractions in the Netherlands, the most spectacular of which was a tulip garden, which was really beautiful with mountains and plains. Wu Bin read two lines of poetry on the spot.

"Lanling's fine wine brings tulips, and the jade bowl holds amber light!"

The communication between the traveling squadron and the team became much more frequent, and they learned a lot of interesting things about other countries while chatting with each other.

One day at noon when everyone was visiting a fishing port, a British boy named Abbott took out a toy that was quite new to Wu Bin and others.

Fidget Spinner

Translated, it means fidget spinner. Just like the literal meaning, it is a spinning top that is played on the fingers.

Abbot is obviously a veteran, and can smoothly transfer two fidget spinners between ten fingers at the same time.

Just when everyone wanted to try to play with this fidget spinner, Mao Mei, who almost made Zhang Fu fall into disgrace before, came over.

Her name is Lilia, she is only a freshman in high school this year, and she is a girl who is very talented in physics, but her personality is... how should I say, unrestrained?

Lilia looked at the fidget spinner in Abt's hand and asked, "What's the f^ucking point of playing this?"

To put it bluntly, it means: "What the hell does this mean?"

But after hearing this, Abbot responded very gentlemanly: "I don't know! But I guess it's kinda like Sisyphus"

‘What is Sisyphus? ’ Although Wu Bin understood what Abt said this was like, he had never heard of Sisyphus.

At this moment, he suddenly missed Li Yan, because he felt that if he asked him, he would definitely know.

There was no humanoid encyclopedia, so Wu Bin had to search on his mobile phone and found that it was a character from Greek mythology called Sisyphus.

In Greek mythology, he was the founder and king of Corinth. His most powerful achievement was to kidnap the God of Death for a time, so that there would be no more death in the world.

Then this behavior naturally offended the gods. In order to punish him, the gods asked him to push a huge boulder to the top of the mountain. However, the boulder was too heavy. Every time it did not reach the top of the mountain, it would roll down the mountain again, and all the previous efforts were wasted. So he Just do this over and over again, never ending.

The gods believed that there could be no more severe punishment than performing such ineffective and hopeless work, and Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless work.

The moral of this story is that Sisyphus's way of tempering his thoughts and fighting against fate is just like human beings gain pleasure and confidence from conquering nature and overcoming difficulties. Some people had sympathy for his harsh punishment, which was so difficult that it was almost a prank, but Sisyphus regarded this sympathy as a shame.

People who have drawn strength from Sisyphus have a new interpretation of the word "suffering", which frees people from dissatisfaction and anxiety and thus appreciates the joy of life and the joy of survival. The gloomy and depressed mental outlook was renewed and bursting with vitality.

But if used today, the meaning of this sentence from Abbot’s classmate should be “I don’t know what it means, but I am just happy to play it!”