October 20, 2012

Since the Autumn of 1998 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.

2012 - Photos     Fermi Quiz    Results    Schedule     Events     Participants     Teacher Project

2011 - Photos     Fermi Quiz    Results    Schedule     Events     Participants     Teacher Project     

2010 - Photos     Fermi Quiz   Results     Schedule     Events     Participants 

For more information please e-mail Stephen Irons at stephen.irons@yale.edu at or call the Physics Olympics Hotline at (203) 432-3664.