I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

In this "Quantum Mechanics" class, the teacher talked about the quantum mechanics theory of superconductivity, and he kept on lecturing, speaking very fast.

Some students looked confused, while others understood or partially understood.

The inquisitive students ask questions in class, teacher, why the trapped magnetic flux must always be an integer multiple of 2π/q? Teacher, can you explain to us the Schrödinger equation in the classical case?

The teacher answered immediately, but his answer did not completely dispel the students' doubts.

Some students pretend to understand what they don't understand, and some students break the casserole and ask the end.

"Actually, it's all written in the textbook. After class, you can study this question in depth. Time is limited, so let's move on to the following teaching." The physics teacher seemed to be in a hurry, and he only answered any question once, and there would be no second time.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the physics teacher handed over his flash and disappeared instantly.

Honest students stay in the classroom for self-study and digest important knowledge points.

The playful students complained that "this class is worthless", and then left the classroom in twos and threes to have fun.

In the next few days, Shen Qi listened to a few physics courses, inspected every corner of the campus, and went to several nearby colleges and universities for private interviews, summed up a few main questions and gave them back to Academician Shi:

1. The teacher teaches rigorously and earnestly, but the student attendance rate is low, especially for "Methods of Mathematical Physics", the attendance rate is only 17.3%. The reason is that there is less interaction between the teacher and the students, and the theoretical If the course follows the scriptures, students will lose their enthusiasm for learning over time.

2. When students encounter problems they don’t understand, they don’t know who to ask. The teacher basically doesn’t communicate with students after class.

3. Our school subscribes to internationally renowned physics journals such as PRL and PT, but undergraduates do not have access to these, and only graduate students and doctoral students have the opportunity to read them.

4. I unannounced interviews with several senior students in the School of Physics and Technology, and they said that their graduation thesis design is very poor, so let’s just be watery. Anyway, the instructor said that as long as they finish writing their graduation thesis according to the standard format, they will definitely be allowed to graduate. This worries me.

5. In terms of scientific research, we did not go deep into various project groups and laboratories. Through the paper search, we found that our institute published hundreds of physics papers last year, but the phenomenon of homogeneity was serious. It is common to write papers in order to complete the task.

6. The students reported that the food in the cafeteria of our school was unpalatable and expensive. In order to improve food, a boy majoring in physics wired and installed high-power electrical appliances in his dormitory without permission, and cooked pork, chicken, beef tendon balls and other foods, which almost caused a fire, posing a great safety hazard.

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After reading Shen Qi's summary of the problems, Academician Shi looked dignified: "Shen Qi, you hit the nail on the head with our common problems. We have been trying to improve 1 and 2. We require teachers to strengthen interaction and communication with students, and pay attention to solving problems. However, the effect is not satisfactory. As you said, students encounter problems they don’t understand after class, and they don’t know who to turn to for advice. Some teachers can’t see anyone after class, not to mention students, even me Couldn't find them."

Shen Qi said: "I think our school and our school's emphasis on undergraduates is relatively low in the entire university town. The best ones are Southern Normal University and Zhongda University. A university only has the undergraduate education level. Only when you go to the top can you really be worthy of the title of a prestigious school. Why is Princeton strong? Their undergraduate level is equivalent to that of graduate students in most universities in the United States, which is closely related to the resources and emphasis the school invests in undergraduate education.”

"Shen Qi, do you have any specific suggestions?" Academician Shi asked.

Shen Qi offered advice: "The full implementation of Princeton's undergraduate tutoring system in Chinese universities will not be achieved overnight. If we don't talk about it, let's talk about the Southern Normal University next door. Their teachers will answer questions one day a week. Time, and actively established a WeChat group with students, which has been well received by students. In terms of undergraduate teaching, we can learn from the successful experience of Southern Normal University and add a rule that students’ evaluation of teachers should be included in teachers’ annual assessment indicators.”

Academician Shi immediately made a decision: "I fully accept this suggestion and implement it first in the Institute of Physics and Technology. As for the opening of subscription rights to professional journals to undergraduates, the low quality of research papers of our institute's researchers, and the formality of undergraduate graduation projects, etc. Subsequent to be resolved, it will take some time.

"About the unpalatable food and high prices in the canteen of our school, I will truthfully report the situation to the vice principal in charge of logistics... To be honest, this canteen contractor is indeed doing very badly, which is far worse than last year's one. Too much, buy a porridge with pickled vegetables and pork bones, full of pickles and no pork bones.” It seems that Academician Shi has also eaten canteens, and he also complained that the newly signed canteen contractors only care about making money and ignore their conscience.

This kind of common problem has existed for a long time, and it is not so easy to solve it in any university.

That is to say, Shen Qi's reputation is great, and the academician at that time had the intention of reforming, and the two hit it off immediately: there is nothing good in changing the past.

As a specially-appointed professor of the School of Physics of Nangang Polytechnic University, Shen Qi volunteered to take the lead. He personally sat in the self-study room and answered questions in all fields of physics for all undergraduates of the School of Physics.

Academician Shi thanked Shen Qi for his kindness. Shen Qi made a good start. Who would dare not follow other professors and lecturers of the Institute of Physics?

The news spread quickly at Nangang Technological University.

"Shen Qi, the boss of the Philippine Award, sits in the school to answer students' doubts!"

"Why did the boss of the Philippine Awards go to the museum?"

"Shen Qi is a specially-appointed professor of our academy."

"Does he know physics?"

"He is a big guy who has published physics papers in PRL and Science!"

"Niu, big brother Shuangxiu, let's go, go and pay respects to big brother!"

The students of the Academy of Physics rushed to tell each other. On the first day when Shen Qi answered questions, the study room was full.

Because too many students came to ask for advice, Academician Shi specially arranged for a teaching assistant to assist Shen Qi.

The teaching assistants collected the students' questions and sorted them, and the questions with the highest frequency and the most difficult to understand were answered first.

The enthusiasm of the students was high. In just one hour, they raised hundreds of questions. After being sorted out by the teaching assistant, they were classified into ten common questions and two special questions, covering almost classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, optics, and thermodynamics. , Mathematical Physics Methods and other core courses for undergraduate physics majors.

"Okay, please be quiet, and I will answer everyone's puzzles one by one." Shen Qi found that it's not that college students don't like to study and don't think well. They are all good students with an active heart to study. An academic atmosphere of full participation.

"The number one problem is the solution of the Schrödinger equation, OK, then let's start with the Schrödinger equation."