I Created Scientific Magic - Chapter 91

Chapter 91: Chapter 81: Sudden Death News (Two in One)

Well, I’ve become Galileo…

Just as Lynn was silently grumbling to himself, a voice came from behind him.

“How do you feel, satisfied? Professor Lynn?”

The speaker was Tic, the alchemist from Wizard City, who was rather complacently stroking his beard.

After Lynn had used being drunk as an excuse to escape the previous night, the professors had discussed how to immortalize that morning’s stunning experiment in the form of a statue.

This was one of the highest honors of the academy!

It meant that from then on, every student joining the Iyeta Academy would be able to reverence his deeds right from the moment they stepped through the academy’s gates.

For the external representation of this sculpture, he had also offered some minor suggestions, and together with the magic of several professors and the tireless efforts of fairies, day and night, the work was completed in just half a day.

“It looks… um… quite striking…” Lynn said reluctantly, actually feeling that the artistic level of the sculpture was rather average.

Tic, however, was very pleased with the work and didn’t detect the perfunctoriness in Lynn’s words. Instead, on the way to the Advanced Mathematics classroom, he explained to Lynn how through sculpture one could express the thoughts of a wizard’s heart.

Lynn maintained a politely insincere smile on his face until he entered the classroom, where he then adopted a solemn expression.

After the division of classes, the number of students in the elite class had decreased significantly, leaving only forty-six.

No, starting today, there would likely be forty-seven.

Because there was an additional Lydia!

At this moment, the halfling girl was sitting at the very front of the classroom. Because of her short stature, her desk and chair were custom-made, a size smaller than others’, which made her stand out conspicuously. Lynn’s eyes focused on her as soon as he entered the room.

Confronted with Lynn’s gaze, Lydia didn’t shiver like the other students but instead held up a roll of parchment, eager to start. “Professor, can we begin the lesson now?”

Ailoke, Pearce, and others looked at Lydia with a mix of pity and reminiscence in their eyes, vaguely remembering their own excitement on the first day of Advanced Math class.

“Since everyone is so eager, then let’s start the class now!” Lynn said, turning his head towards the gray-haired witch.

“Johnny, collect everyone’s homework…”

“I gave you all a whole day, so surely you’ve calculated the area of the Lookout by now, haven’t you?” Lynn asked with a smile.

As soon as he said this, a chorus of groans filled the classroom.

As members of the Advanced Mathematics elite class, each of them possessed a not insignificant talent for math, but unfortunately, the structure of the Lookout airship was extremely complicated, with the easiest part, the airship envelope, being elliptical.

Even though Lynn had previously taught them the relevant formula and provided some data, calculating it accurately was still an extremely difficult task.

But no matter how reluctant they were, they had to hand over their draft papers. Lydia was no exception.

In fact, over the past half-month of building the airship, whenever Lynn had spare time to explain the blueprints to her, he had also taught many geometric formulas and theorems, so her progress was not falling behind the elite students.

Lynn took the stack of parchment rolls that Johnny handed to him, and upon seeing the first one, he frowned and said, “Debra, why is there only the area of the envelope and cockpit? What about the tailfin?”

“But you didn’t provide the measurements for the airship’s tailfin…” said the red-haired witch, standing up tentatively.

“But it can be calculated, can’t it?” Lynn looked at the gathering of wizards and explained.

“The shape of the tailfin can be divided into an isosceles right triangle and a square. I gave you a proportional diagram, and if you look carefully, you can see that one of the diagonals of the cockpit is parallel to the diagonal of the airship’s tailfin, and they are the same length. Given the length of the hypotenuse, one can easily calculate the other measurements using the Pythagorean theorem…”

This was not easy at all… the red-haired witch looked distressed.

Yet, without mincing words, Lynn bluntly said, “Copy the formula fifty times when you get back! Additionally, recalculate and present a new set of data to me before class ends!”

The students below couldn’t help but shrink back; they, too, had not been able to calculate the area of the tailfin.

“What is this Pythagorean theorem?” Tic turned to Ailoke with a puzzled expression and asked.

“It’s a calculation rule discovered by the professor. On a plane right triangle, the sum of the squares of the two legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse…” Ailoke had checked his notebook several times to ensure he was not mistaken and appeared vaguely excited.

Having attended yesterday’s award ceremony, he of course knew that before him was a Third-Circle Wizard and a master Alchemist!

Such a prominent figure was actually asking him for advice!

Ailoke felt that this was probably the most glorious moment of his life!

“What’s a square?” Tic continued to inquire; these terms were all unfamiliar to him.

“A square is the product of two identical numbers multiplied together…” Ailoke was absolutely certain, not even glancing at the formulas in his notebook, and then he explained to the master Alchemist the area formulas for circles and polygons.