Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 144 Gold Medal (0.1%)
Thursday, January 15, 2015 .
The final results of this physics academic competition sponsored by the American Physical Society and the American Astronomical Society and open to undergraduate students from universities around the world have been announced.
It was only after Yang Yiyi reminded him that Chen Zhou went to the official website to check the published information.
"We are pleased to announce the results of the 5th College Physics Competition... In this year's competition, we received 1,931 submissions from teams. Of these, 917 teams chose 'Problem A - Circumbinary Stars' and 1,014 teams chose 'Problem B - Fountains'."
"In addition, there are 13 teams that sent their paper documents after the competition. After evaluation, we decided to list them as 'accomplished competitors'. As for the 60 teams that did not send relevant documents after registration, they will not be eligible for any awards."
"For Problem A, the gold medal winning team is: Team 413, Chen Zhou, Yang Yiyi and Fang Jieming."
"Institution: Yenching University."
"Instructor: Mananton."
"For question B..."
The gold medal winning team for question B was a team from Jacobs University Bremen.
As with problem A, there was only one team that won the gold medal for both problems.
After that, there is the relevant award information of the silver medal.
Chen Zhou searched for a while and found "LILI" in the silver medal list. It should be Li Li.
I skipped over other people's information and went straight to the end of the official website, where there was a summary of the overall award information.
"Of the 1,931 papers submitted to the 2014 College Physics Competition, 2 teams (0.1%) were named gold medalists, 76 teams (3.9%) were named silver medalists, 189 teams (9.8%) were named bronze medalists, and 542 teams (28%) were named excellent..."
After Chen Zhou finished reading it, he just felt that this was a bit tragic...
Didn't the previous rule say 2% for gold medals and 15%-20% for silver medals? That's a lie, right?
The total amount of gold, silver and copper is less than 15%, right?
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly. It turned out that official words could not be trusted.
I guess they said this just to attract participating teams.
However, this also indirectly shows how difficult it is to successfully win the gold medal among so many teams in the world.
When Chen Zhou was about to close the page, he heard Li Li's voice: "Chen Zhou, your team won the gold medal, awesome!"
After hearing what Li Li said, Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli both exclaimed at the same time: "What? Brother Chen (Zhou) won the gold medal?"
Li Li pointed to his computer and said, "Look, this is the gold medalist team for question A."
Unlike the silver and bronze medalists, the gold medalist team’s photo is posted on the official website.
So, when Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli turned their heads, they saw Chen Zhou in the photo.
The two of them said in unison: "Fuck, that's awesome!"
Then, Zhao Qiqi turned to Chen Zhou and said, "Brother Chen, do you think I'm right? Under the same conditions, your chances of winning the gold medal remain the same. Look, you won the gold medal..."
Zhao Qiqi stopped talking before she finished, turned around and asked Li Li: "What about you? Didn't you win the gold medal?"
Li Li replied: "No, I won the silver medal. There is only one team that won the gold medal for both questions..."
Zhao Qiqi was slightly stunned, then frowned and said, "That's not right. Doesn't this competition say that the chance of winning a gold medal is about 2%? If there is only one team, how can the chance of winning a gold medal be 2%?"
Like Chen Zhou, Zhao Qiqi discovered this official blind spot.
Zhu Mingli continued: "I guess the authorities lowered the winning rate in order to increase the value of the competition."
Zhao Qiqi nodded: "That should be the case. Otherwise, according to my equivalent conversion, Li Li, you are definitely a gold medalist!"
I thought Li Li would also sigh and condemn the authorities for not following the rules in order to increase the value of the document.
Unexpectedly, Li Li slid the mouse and clicked on a page.
On the page was the English introduction to the UPC competition.
Li Li scrolled to the end of the page, where there was a message: "We sincerely hope that college students can 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 been going on for a few years. This rule was formulated for the first competition and released on November 1, 2010. The results of the first competition were not much different from these rules. There were less than 100 teams participating. One gold medal for each of the two questions, which is about 2%. Including the second competition, there were also about 100 teams."
"The rapid expansion of participating teams has only started in the past two sessions. And..."
As he spoke, Li Li refreshed another page, which showed the results of the 2013 competition.
There are two gold medal winning teams for question A.
After seeing this, Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli looked at each other and said nothing.
Li Lizhe added: "It's not that the organizers didn't follow the rules, it's just that our participating teams don't have the strength to win a gold medal."
After a pause, Li Li continued, "In fact, when I saw the photos of the inner orbit planets taken by Chen Zhou, I knew that this would be the result. Chen Zhou's team deserves the gold medal!"
After saying that, Li Li looked at Chen Zhou. He was convinced that Chen Zhou won the gold medal in this competition.
In particular, he could see how much work Chen Zhou had done in their team.
After all, they are all in the same computer room.
He believes that this result is the best compliment to Chen Zhou.
Zhao Qiqi also said: "Brother Chen is really awesome. He won a gold medal in his first competition!"
Zhu Mingli: "Indeed, it is well deserved!"
Chen Zhou smiled slightly: "Our team performed well, right?"
Li Li smiled softly and said nothing.
Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli looked at each other again.
After the UPC competition results are announced, the winning teams will receive corresponding certificates.
The certificate will be mailed to the address used by the participating team when registering.
Normal delivery time is 1 to 3 weeks.
Chen Zhou didn't care too much about the certificate. The result was out anyway, so it didn't matter whether he had a certificate or not.
Now he just wanted to ask Dean Yang about this issue that he had been waiting for more than 20 days.
However, he didn't have Dean Yang's phone number, nor did he know where Dean Yang's office was.
Just as I was about to call Yang Yiyi to ask, Yang Yiyi called again.
"Hello, Yiyi?"
"Hey, Chen Zhou, Professor Mananton just called me and told me that Dean Yang is looking for someone from our team."
"Dean Yang is looking for us?"
"Well, come out now. I'll call the senior and we'll meet in front of the dormitory building."
"Um."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Zhou looked at his phone and thought, I don't even need to ask for someone, they just came to me...
