I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 316 - 304 Our goal is to explore where magic comes from!

Chapter 316: Chapter 304 Our goal is to explore where magic comes from!

Early the next morning, a group of Wizard Apprentices entered the exam site with apprehensive hearts. After receiving their own test papers, they soon began to furrow their brows and start calculating.

Pearce also didn’t dare delay and quickly glanced at the first question.

“Person A and Person B start walking towards each other from two places. After four hours, they meet at a point 5,000 meters from the center. Knowing that A’s speed is faster than B’s, how many kilometers per hour is A faster than B?”

Pearce’s brows furrowed immediately. This appeared to be a math Olympiad problem, solving for the unknown, but the conditions provided were not ample. He pondered it for quite a while before he came up with an idea on how to solve it and began drawing line segment diagrams.

On the other side of the exam hall, several Wizards responsible for supervising the exam were also looking at the test papers in their hands.

For this graduation exam of the Yeyeta school, Fula and others were very interested; they volunteered to supervise the students and also felt slightly eager to solve the problems themselves.

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Fula initially thought the questions were all prepared for the apprentices, easy for herself as a formal Wizard, but after looking at several questions, she was stunned.

“Is this what the Iyeta Academy usually teaches?” a male Wizard asked puzzledly – he had expected the exam content to cover knowledge about elements, herbs, alchemy, and Shaping Science.

“Indeed!” Lynn nodded, looking toward Fula and others and spoke. “Overall, it comprises math Olympiad, chemistry, and physics…and we might add biology in the future.”

“But what’s the use of learning these? We might as well learn a few more spells if we have time,” Fula pouted.

Lynn straightened his expression. “Math Olympiad is the foundation of all natural sciences, chemistry is the study of the composition, structure, and change of magic elements, and physics is the exploration of the laws of the world…”

“These courses are designed to explore the origins of magic!” Lynn declared emphatically.

The origins of magic?

Hearing this, everyone present was deeply shaken; although they had learned magic, they rarely thought deeply about this question.

Lynn continued to speak. “As for their utility, haven’t you seen it already? It’s everywhere in the city! The glass you see, the pages, the airships, ships, even the Electromagnetic Railgun, all of it can be attributed to these three subjects!”

Reflecting on what she had seen and experienced since entering Iyeta, Fula put aside her initial disdain and began to seriously scrutinize each question.

However, not having formally studied math Olympiad, she didn’t immediately know where to start to solve these equation problems and had to look towards Lynn for help.

Lynn raised his hand slightly and created a soundproof barrier nearby before he started to explain.

“This problem is actually easy to calculate, though it is a bit tricky. If A and B moved at the same speed, they would have met exactly at the midpoint, but they met 5,000 meters from the center point. This means the faster A had to travel twice the distance compared to B, which is 10,000 meters.”

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“Since the two met after four hours, it means both A and B walked for four hours, so you just need to do a simple division to find out that A’s speed is 2.5 kilometers per hour faster than B!”

Lynn explained the solution to the problem as concisely as possible; the problem wasn’t difficult, and a bit of thinking would suffice to solve it.

The exam contained a total of fifty questions, two points each, with a total of one hundred points. Scoring sixty was considered a pass, meaning that answering thirty questions correctly would suffice!

He had carefully designed the difficulty of these questions: twenty-five “gift” questions, twenty “easy” questions, and five “rather difficult” questions.

According to his expectation, if Ailoke and others took notes diligently, they should easily solve all the “gift” questions, and then they only needed to correctly answer five “easy” questions to pass.

However, this was just passing; Lynn hoped to see a few students with excellent scores for focused training, as they were all potential scientific talents.

Of course, besides the “liberal arts” exam, these young apprentices still had to undergo a practical course, testing their real combat and basic magic casting abilities, and the averages of the two were used to decide whether an apprentice was qualified to become a formal Wizard—this also provided an extra opportunity for students who might excel in one area but not the other.

After Lynn had explained a few math Olympiad questions, Fula and the others quickly caught onto the fun of solving problems, each beginning to ponder with a pen in hand, completely forgetting they had come to supervise the students’ exams.

For Orlando, these ‘gift’ questions naturally didn’t count for much. After glancing through them, he shifted his attention to the questions that Lynn had marked as easy on the exam paper.

“A Wizard driving an airship encounters an air disaster and jumps from a height of four hundred eighty meters. After free-falling for a certain distance, he casts the Slow Fall Technique to decelerate uniformly at a rate of two meters per second. Reaching the ground with a velocity of exactly zero, ignoring air resistance, calculate the total time of the fall and the distance of free fall…”

This should also be an equation problem.

Orlando thought for a moment, remembering Lynn saying that free-fall motion is a uniformly accelerated straight-line motion with an initial velocity of 0, and the formula is v=gt, where g is the gravitational acceleration, which is about 10 meters per second²? This t, what was it—time, right?

But the fall was divided into two parts, and both the time and distance of falling were unknown, which were precisely the answers sought. Simply applying this formula wouldn’t work…

Orlando pondered for a long time, sweat beading on his forehead.

He realized that he actually… couldn’t solve it!

“Dean Lynn, aren’t these questions a bit too hard?” Orlando couldn’t help but speak out, calling these simple?!

Are these really apprentice-level questions? He felt it might be a bit too excessive.

“Is it that difficult?” Lynn looked strangely at Orlando, remembering that he had taught the relevant formulas and even published them in the “Magic Daily” to allow Wizards and even town residents interested in mathematics to enjoy the fun of math Olympiad.