Chen Zhou borrowed Li Li's computer and searched online to find the UPC official website.

The official website interface is very simple, with only an English introduction and some basic information about previous events.

Chen Zhou took a quick glance and muttered to himself: "It seems that my English level needs to be improved a bit..."

Although he could understand it, there were many professional terms and vocabulary that he didn't know.

From this introduction, Chen Zhou learned the basic information about this event.

Before the competition, all participating teams must be officially registered on the website by a teacher.

Instructors will also serve as their team advisors and be responsible for verifying that participating team members comply with competition rules and paying team registration fees.

All registrations must be submitted at least 6 hours before the official start of the competition.

After the game starts, each team chooses one of the two questions that appears on the website and answers it.

The problem itself can be understood by students with at least one year of college physics experience, but the design concept of the problem is open.

Therefore, this event is mainly a challenge for senior students.

Furthermore, these questions may contain incomplete information and participating students must conduct background research.

Based on the corresponding background, make some reasonable assumptions.

Then conduct analysis based on these assumptions.

In other words, there is no clear and correct solution to the competition question.

This piece of information alone convinced Chen Zhou of the challenge of this event.

After all, open problems are the hardest to solve.

During the competition, participating team members can use books, journals, computers, the Internet, programs they have written, or any other non-biological resources.

However, consultation with anyone other than the team members will be prohibited.

This requirement also corresponds to what was said above, the design of the problem is open.

The event organizing committee has complete confidence that you cannot find the correct solution to the problem from any source.

Then, there are the requirements for the results of the final competition question.

Teams must conduct a theoretical analysis of the proposed solution using physical principles and write a formal paper in English detailing their work.

Each paper must begin with a 300-word abstract providing key details and results of the work performed.

For Chen Zhou, writing this article in English may not be so comfortable.

The experience he learned from the last project research is enough to ensure that he completes this work.

Therefore, when Chen Zhou saw this request, he thought it was not a big problem.

At the end of the competition, competition officials require that papers must be sent via email to the designated official mailbox.

There are clear requirements for the sending time, which must be within 48 hours of the official start of the competition.

After the competition, the competition organizing committee will evaluate and rank all participating papers, and the best 2% of papers will be named gold medal winners.

Then 15-20% are silver medals, 25-30% are bronze medals, and 50-60% are outstanding players.

As for the remaining 40% of participating papers, they can only receive the participation award.

In short, Chen Zhou's first impression after reading the entire competition introduction was that there was something special about this competition, and it could be regarded as a small research project.

The difficulty of this competition is how to accurately analyze the problems and propose solutions from the open problems within 48 hours.

Conduct a theoretical analysis of the plan, successfully complete the entire project, and complete an English paper.

The allocation of time and the division of labor among personnel must be reasonable.

For Chen Zhou, participating in this kind of competition for the first time is self-evidently challenging.

After understanding the information about the entire competition, Chen Zhou then searched for the topics of previous competitions.

Looking at the searched information, Chen Zhou couldn't help but feel that the openness of this question was really extraordinary. There were all kinds of questions from small to large.

It sounds awesome, like [launching a micro-spacecraft propelled by light pressure to Proxima Centauri], [sending a laser-propelled nano-model to Alpha Centauri], [protection of Mars exploration spacecraft], these types of competitions

question.

The topic itself is not only highly open-ended, but also a practical issue in current research in the aerospace field.

Thinking that the sponsor of the event is the Astronomical Society of the United States, Chen Zhou can understand why such a question is raised.

There are also some questions that sound like life, such as [Design of a Roller Coaster], [Compost Dimensions of a Turning Machine], and so on.

Although it doesn't sound that advanced, the physics theory knowledge involved is no less than the above.

Because it is closer to life, the difficulty of the questions is not simpler than the astronomy questions, but more difficult.

Chen Zhou wrote down these competition questions on the scratch paper, and kept tapping the scratch paper with the pen in his hand.

Looking at the information and requirements of the competition question [Sending a micro-spacecraft propelled by light pressure to Proxima Centauri], Chen Zhou tried to think about how he would solve the problem if it were him.

"Model, we need to build a reasonable model..."

As Chen Zhou thought about it, the pen in his hand fell on the draft paper and he started writing quickly.

The difficulty of this problem lies in estimating the motion of objects on a cosmic scale.

Only a reasonable model can be constructed, and the physical theory involved in the model must be able to justify itself.

After that, based on the model, a quantitative analysis of the related physical phenomena is made.

Only when you do something can you know how difficult it is.

Looking at the scratch paper that he was writing and drawing, which was quickly filled up, Chen Zhou sighed slightly, this thing is really troublesome...

"Chen Zhou, what are you writing about?" When Chen Zhou stopped writing, Li Li leaned his head over.

"Take a look." Chen Zhou pushed the computer in front of Li Li.

Li Li took a look and said, "Damn it, you stopped studying mathematics and started doing physics?"

Li Li's voice successfully attracted the other two friends who were immersed in reading.

Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli stood up and got behind Chen Zhou.

Zhao Qiqi: "Tsk tsk tsk, International College Physics Competition..."

"Hmm? You know this?" Chen Zhou looked back at Zhao Qiqi.

Zhao Qiqi nodded and said: "I understand that the mathematical modeling competition known as physics is comparable to the mathematical modeling competition, but it is more focused on practical problems. It is said that the problems are extremely open-ended and difficult to solve."

Zhu Mingli said strangely: "Chen Zhou, the midterm exam season is coming soon, why do you look like this? Are you planning to take part? But this seems to need to be organized by the school, right?"

Chen Zhou replied: "It was organized by the Academy of Physics. Yiyi wanted to participate, so I joined."

After a pause, Chen Zhou asked: "Do you want to participate? Their Institute of Physical Education is recruiting people. If you want to participate, I will ask for you."

Zhao Qiqi shook his head, and Zhu Mingli also shook his head. Their plan was to withstand the pressure within the dormitory first, and then participate in the mathematics competition next year.

Li Li asked: "Chen Zhou, can I participate?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, IMO gold medal, are you going to take action?" Zhao Qiqi joked.

Li Li: "Let's read a book."

Hearing this, Chen Zhou smiled and said, "Let me ask you."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Zhou's cell phone rang.
Chapter completed!