Thursday, January 15, 2015.

The final results of the physics academic competition, sponsored by the United States Physical Society and the United States Astronomical Society, for undergraduate students from all over the world, were announced.

Chen Zhou only checked the official website to check the announced information after Yang Yiyi reminded him.

"We are pleased to announce the results of the 5th Collegiate Physics Competition...... In this year's competition, we received a total of 1,931 submissions from participating teams. Of these, 917 teams chose 'Question A – Orbiting the Double Star' and 1,014 teams chose 'Question B – Fountain'. ”

"In addition, there are 13 teams that only sent their papers after the competition. After review, we decided to list them as 'accomplished competitors'. As for the registration, the 60 teams that have not sent the relevant documents will not be eligible for any awards. ”

"For question A, the gold medal winning team is: Team 413, Chen Zhou, Yang Yiyi and Fang Jieming. ”

Institution: Yenching University. ”

"Instructor: Manandon. ”

"For question B......

The gold medal winner team in Question B is a team from Jacobs University in Bremen.

As with question A, the gold medalists in both questions have only one team.

After that, there is information about the silver medal.

Chen Zhou looked for a while and found "LILI" in the list of silver medals, which should be Li Li.

I skipped the information of other people, and went directly to the end of the official website information, and there was a summary of the overall award information.

"Of the 1,931 papers submitted in the 2014 Collegiate Physics Competition, 2 teams (0.1%) were named gold medalists, 76 teams (3.9%) were named silver medalists, 189 teams (9.8%) were awarded bronze medalists, and 542 teams (28%) were named outstanding contestants......

After Chen Zhou finished reading it, he only felt that this Nima was a bit tragic......

Didn't the previous rules say 2% gold medals and 15%-20% silver medals?

The gold, silver and bronze add up to less than 15%, right?

Chen Zhou shook his head slightly, sure enough, the official words could not be believed.

It is estimated that it is to attract participating teams, so I said this.

However, this also shows from the side how difficult it is to successfully win gold from so many teams in the world.

Chen Zhou was about to close the page when he heard Li Li's voice: "Chen Zhou, your team has won gold, amazing!"

Hearing Li Li's words, Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli exclaimed at the same time: "What? Brother Chen (Zhou) won the gold medal?"

Li Li pointed to his computer: "Look, the gold medal winner team of Problem A. ”

Unlike the silver and bronze medalists, the photos of the gold medalist team are posted on the official website.

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli turned their heads, they saw Chen Zhou in the photo.

The two said in unison: ", awesome!"

Immediately, Zhao Qiqi turned his head and said to Chen Zhou: "Brother Chen, you see what I said is right, under the same conditions, the probability of you winning the gold is unchanged. No, you're going to win the gold......"

Before Zhao Qiqi finished speaking, he stopped, turned his head and asked Li Li: "What about you, didn't you win the gold?"

Li Li replied: "No, I am a silver medal. There was only one team for the gold medalists in both titles......"

Zhao Qiqi was slightly stunned, and then frowned: "No, doesn't this competition say that the winning rate of the gold medal is about 2%? If there is only one team, how can the winning rate of this gold medal be 2%?"

Zhao Qiqi, like Chen Zhou, discovered this official blind spot.

Zhu Mingli continued: "It is estimated that the official has reduced the winning rate in order to increase the gold content of the competition. ”

Zhao Qiqi nodded: "It should be like this, otherwise, according to my equivalent conversion, Li Li, you are definitely a gold medal!"

I thought that Li Li would also sigh and condemn the official for not following the rules in order to increase the gold content.

Unexpectedly, Li Li slid the mouse and clicked out a page.

On the page, it is the English introduction to the UPC competition.

Li Li pulled the page to the end, with a message: "We sincerely hope that university students will have a great passion for physics!"

The message is followed by a date "November 1, 2010".

Li Li pointed to the date and said: "The UPC competition has only started a few years ago, and this rule was formulated by the first competition, which was issued on November 1, 2010. The results of the first tournament were not much different from this rule, with fewer than 100 teams participating. One gold medal for each of the two questions, which is almost 2%. Including the second session, there are almost more than 100 teams. ”

"The rapid expansion of the participating teams has only started in the last two editions. And ......"

Saying that, Li Li refreshed another page, which was the result of the 13-year event.

There are two gold medal winning teams in Question A.

After Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli saw it, they glanced at each other and did not speak.

Li Li said: "It's not that the event side didn't follow the rules, it's just that we, the participating teams, can't reach the strength to win the gold medal." ”

After a pause, Li Li continued: "Actually, when I saw the photos of the planets in the inner orbits taken by Chen Zhou, I knew that this was almost the result. Chen Zhou's team deserves to get this gold medal!"

After speaking, Li Li looked at Chen Zhou, in this competition, Chen Zhou won the gold medal, and he was convinced.

In particular, he can also see how much work Chen Zhou has done in their team.

After all, it's all in one machine room.

Now this result, he thinks it is the best praise for Chen Zhou.

Zhao Qiqi also said: "Brother Chen is really awesome, the first time he participated in the competition, he was a gold medal!"

Zhu Mingli: "Indeed, it is well deserved!"

Chen Zhou smiled slightly: "Our team is playing well......

Li Li smiled softly and did not speak.

Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli looked at each other again.

After the UPC competition results are announced, the winning teams will receive the corresponding certificates.

The certificate will be mailed to the address used by the team to register.

The general delivery time is 1 to 3 weeks.

Chen Zhou didn't care too much about the certificate, anyway, the result was already out, and it didn't matter if there was a certificate or not.

Now he just wants to ask Dean Yang about this question that he has been waiting for for more than 20 days.

It's just that he doesn't have Dean Yang's phone number, and he doesn't know where Dean Yang's office is.

When he was about to call Yang Yiyi to inquire, Yang Yiyi called again.

"Hey, Yiyi?"

"Hey, Chen Zhou, Professor Mananton just called me and told me that Dean Yang was looking for someone from our team. ”

"Dean Yang looking for us?"

"Well, you come out now, I'll call the senior again, we'll meet in front of the dormitory building." ”

"Hmm. ”

Hanging up the phone, Chen Zhou looked at his mobile phone and thought to himself, he didn't need to open his mouth to find someone, he would find it......