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Yale Physics Olympics 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008

For more information contact Peter Parker at peter.parker@yale.edu or the Physics Department at (203) 432-3650

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Year	Photos	Fermi Quiz	Standings	Schedule	Events	Participants
2008
2007	2007 Photos	2007 Quiz (pdf)	2007 Results	2007 Timetable	2007 Events	2007 Participtants
2006			2006 Results	2006 Timetable		2006 Participants
2005	2005 Photos	2005 Quiz (pdf)	2005 Results	2005 Timetable		2005 Participants
2004	2004 Photos	2004 Quiz (pdf)		2004 Timetable		2004 Participants

Since the Autumn of 1998, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool (U.K.), the Department of Physics at Yale University has organized an annual Physics Olympics Competition.

The theme of our event is "physics is fun!" Our hope is that the participants enjoy themselves while applying basic ideas from physics in a practical context and hopefully learn some new physics during the day. Click here for Directions.

The event takes the form of a pentathlon, consisting of five 35-minute events. Each event is a task or simple experiment which the students perform as a term and for which they obtain a result or measurement. The teams are ordered based on the accuracy of their results and prizes awarded to the winning teams.

Our event is organized in close cooperation with our friends in the University of Liverpool, who hold a similar event with the same tasks on the same day making this a truly international event! [Liverpool Physics Olympics International]

For more information please e-mail Peter Parker at peter.parker@yale.edu or call the Physics Olympics Hotline at (203) 432-3650.

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