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PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Dear Students, Parents, and Teachers.
We are happy to introduce our Physics & Astronomy Olympiad. This Olympiad has 2 Rounds: the Preliminary Round and the Global Round.
Schools, Parents, and Students can register themselves through our website, or by contacting us. The registration deadline is September 15, 2023. Students from Grade 09 to 12 (O & A-Levels) can participate in this Olympiad.
The Preliminary Round will be held on the following date: October 05, 2023. The exam will have 25 multiple-choice questions. The contest will start at 10 am at your own School under you principal's supervision and will last 60 minutes. Students need to choose only one Preliminary Round to participate.
To qualify for the Global Round which will be held physically between 07 - 11 Jan, 2024 at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. The students need to score 40% and higher in the Preliminary Round.
Students will be given a Certificate of Participation in the Preliminary Round, a Certificate of Achievement in the Preliminary Round, and Medals according to the following progress:
91% – 100% – Gold Medal
-75% – 90% – Silver Medal
-50% – 74% – Bronze Medal
-40% to 49% – Honorable Mention Certificate
***Hard copies of Medals will be distributed after the Global Round.
SYLLABUS
- Physical Quantities and Measurement
- Motion
- Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Work, Energy, and Power
- Simple Machines
- Temperature and Heat
- Sound
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Space Exploration
- Rotation, Revolution, and Seasons
- Moon Phases
- Eclipses & Tides
- Planets
- Solar System
- Earth and Space
- Water and Weather
- Climate
- Precipitation
- Environmental Changes
- The Human Body
- Chemical and Physical Changes of matter
- Energy and Its Transformations
- Electricity
- Force, Motion, and Acceleration
- Matter, Atoms, and Elements
- Organization in the Environment
- Grade 9-10 Topics
- Vector basics
- Unit vectors
- Vectors and two-dimensional motion
- Projectile Motion
- Centripetal acceleration
- Inclined planes
- Friction
- Tension
- Conservation of linear momentum and elastic collision
- Collision in 2D
- Gravitational potential energy and conservative forces
- Spring potential energy and Hooke’s law
- Centre of mass
- Angular kinematics
- Torque and equilibrium
- Conservation of angular momentum
- Stress, strain, and modulus of elasticity
- Zeroth and first law of thermodynamics
- Simple harmonic motion
- The Doppler effect
- Constellations
- Kepler’s laws
- Equinoxes and solstices
- Formation of the solar system
- The Sun
- Hubble’s tuning fork
- Dark matter and energy
- HR diagram
PAST PAPERS
Students will receive the followings:
-Certificate of Participation in Preliminary Round,
-Achievement Medals in the Preliminary Round (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
-Certificate of Participation in Global Round (Paper Certificate),
-Certificate of Achievement: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention (Paper Certificate)
-Achievement Medals: Gold, Silver and Bronze (Based on their performance)
Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals in the Global Round will be awarded based on the following percentages:
⁃ The top 10% will receive a Gold Medal
⁃ The top 11-30% will receive a Silver Medal
⁃ The top 31-60% will receive a Bronze Medal
⁃ The top 61-75% will receive an Honorable Mention Certificate
Moreover, the top three students of each category of Global Round will get special prizes listed below:
