This top-tier academic genius

Monday, 6:30 a.m.

Lin Yan then slung her schoolbag over her shoulder and headed out; a new week of school was about to begin.

"Lin Yan, wait for me."

Chen Bin caught up from behind.

"Why didn't you call me?"

"Sorry, I forgot."

They are both locals and do not live on campus, so they do not need to return to school a day early.

"Tch, what a jerk," Chen Bin scoffed, then asked, "How did you spend your weekend? You weren't really studying, were you?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"No way, are you possessed by a ghost? Is this still the Lin Yan I know? What's so great about studying? How did you suddenly become so obsessed with it?"

Chen Bin expressed his deep sorrow, having completely lost a like-minded friend, and now there will be no one to play games with or hang out with at internet cafes with him.

Lin Yan replied, "Learning makes me happy!"

At the same time, he thought to himself, "You guessed right."

Chen Bin didn't understand, but he was deeply shocked.

With heavy academic workload in their final year of high school, students have already started attending early morning self-study sessions.

The first class this morning is English, and today's morning self-study session is English self-study.

Lin Yan's English wasn't very good either, mainly because his vocabulary was too poor; he hadn't really studied it properly at all.

However, compared to other courses, English is the subject he is least worried about.

There's a simple way to learn English: memorize vocabulary.

Because as long as your vocabulary increases, your English won't be bad.

Lin Yan possesses a memory experience card, making memorizing vocabulary easy. With enough points, he even believes he can memorize the entire Oxford Dictionary.

During morning self-study, I used the [Memory Experience Card I (1 hour)] directly, and my memory instantly dropped to 0.3.

"Abandon, abandon, give up."

Lin Yan has already started memorizing vocabulary words.

The effects of improved memory are very obvious. In just half an hour of morning self-study, he memorized nearly 300 words, both quickly and accurately.

I just don't know how much the memory card will remember after it fails, or if I'll forget everything.

Taking advantage of the time before the trial card expired, Lin Yan continued to memorize, and didn't stop even when the first class started and the English teacher arrived.

Anyway, the English teacher doesn't care much about the underachievers, and besides, he's really looking at English, so even if he sees it, he's unlikely to speak it.

After the memory card expired, Lin Yan discovered that he could still remember about 80-90% of the words he had just memorized.

He was very satisfied with the results and couldn't help but think, if a memory of 0.3 could achieve this level, what if the memory reached 1? Would he be able to remember everything he saw?

What are the memory attributes of those memory geniuses in "The Brain"?

The second class was physics. Huang Nanfang, who was in his early forties and already balding, walked in with a stack of test papers in his hand, looking rather unfriendly.

"Come on, class representative, hand out the test papers from last time. We'll go over this test paper in this class."

In fact, for middle schools like Xincheng No.1 Middle School, most of the senior year curriculum consists of doing and reviewing test papers, while the textbook content is usually covered in the junior year.

On the podium, Huang Nanfang said, "This test was terrible. Not a single student in our class got 80 points, the average score was only 54, and several students even got single-digit scores. How can this be? I can't understand how anyone could get a single-digit score. Even if they had guessed, they could have gotten more."

Lin Yan received his test paper; the score was "8," which was very auspicious.

It's not his fault; his predecessor hadn't really studied physics properly, even though he got a perfect score on his middle school physics exam.

Compared to junior high school physics, high school physics is practically a completely different subject; the two are worlds apart in terms of difficulty.

High school physics is arguably one of the most difficult subjects, mainly covering six modules: mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, optics, atomic physics and experiments. The knowledge system spirals upwards, emphasizing logical reasoning and practical application.

"You've all received your papers, right? Take a good look at where you went wrong. Let's start from the beginning. The first question is an easy one; you shouldn't have gotten this wrong. It's basically testing the second law. The answer is B. I won't go into detail..."

The teacher spoke very quickly, and Lin Yan listened attentively below.

Compared to last time, he felt that he could understand it much more easily.

However, it was only the first few simple questions that were easy; anything a little more difficult would be a disaster.

I thought that once my math skills improved, my physics wouldn't be bad either, but I was wrong.

Mathematics is an important foundation for learning physics, and physics relies heavily on mathematical ability, but it does not mean that being good at mathematics will necessarily lead to being good at physics.

The two are actually only related: those who are good at physics generally won't be too bad at math; but those who are good at math may not necessarily be good at physics.

Mathematics studies abstract quantitative relationships and logical structures, focusing on computational ability and deductive reasoning.

Physics emphasizes summarization, induction, and logical reasoning. It requires abstracting concrete problems, deriving them using formulas, and then returning to concrete answers.

When it came to the problem-solving questions, Huang Nanfang began to slow down his explanations.

"The second problem in the problem-solving section actually tests force analysis, and it's a little difficult..."

As shown in the figure, a smooth inclined plane with an angle of θ = 37° connects smoothly to a rough horizontal surface at its bottom. A small slider slides down the inclined plane from a height h = 1.8m from rest, and after entering the horizontal surface, it slides a certain distance before stopping. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the slider and the horizontal surface is μ = 0.5, the acceleration due to gravity is g = 10m/s², sin37° = 0.6, and cos37° = 0.8.

Find: (1) the speed of the slider when it reaches the bottom of the inclined plane; (2) the distance the slider travels on the horizontal surface.

Teacher Huang Nanfang was explaining the problem in front of him loudly, but Lin Yan couldn't quite understand it, mainly because he didn't quite understand the force he was talking about.

As expected, relying on myself isn't enough, so I guess I'll have to...

On the system panel, my points inexplicably increased by more than 6,000, so I immediately started drawing.

This time, the luck of the "God of Luck" struck again, and a golden light shone forth.

[Talent Acquired: Physical Intuition (Beginner)]

Lin Yan was overjoyed. What he wished for had come true; it was yet another innate ability.

[Physical Intuition (Beginner)]: You possess an intuition that surpasses that of ordinary people. To a certain extent, you can see through the essence of physics and form a clear physical picture.

After acquiring this talent, the world in Lin Yan's eyes completely changed.

A pen fell to the floor, bounced up and fell down again, and a scene instantly flashed through Lin Yan's mind.

This is a mechanical motion. The pen goes from falling to the ground → bouncing up → falling down again. The force in the whole process can be divided into three stages. The falling and rising are only affected by gravity and air resistance. At the moment of collision, it is affected by the elastic force (support force) of the ground.

When Lin Yan looked at the problem the teacher was explaining, he automatically imagined a smooth ramp, a slider, and a horizontal surface in his mind.

When the slider slides on a slope, it is affected by the downward gravity and the upward support force perpendicular to the slope; on a horizontal plane, it is affected by the downward gravity, the upward support force, and the backward frictional force.

Therefore, the first part of this question only involves work done by gravity.

mgh = (1/2)mv², canceling out m: v = √(2gh) = √(2 × 10 × 1.8) = 6 m/s

Solution to the second question: μmg = ma ⟹a = μg = 5m/s², from 0 − v² = −2ax: x = v²/(2μg) = 36 /(2 × 0.5 × 10) = 3.6 m

The teacher was still explaining how to do force analysis, while Lin Yan had already worked out the calculations on the draft paper.

"Hmm, it doesn't seem too difficult, it's quite simple."