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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Dear Physics Community,</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">The IOP is looking for physicists to supply questions for next year's <a href="http://plancks.uk/">PLANCKS </a>competitions. We are delighted that the UK and
Ireland will be hosting the international finals at Trinity College Dublin in May 2024, along with our own preliminaries at the University of Surrey earlier in the year. </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">PLANCKS is an annual international theoretical physics competition that brings together students from around the world for a weekend-long programme
of social, cultural, and educational events. We would like to invite the IOP community to participate by contributing physics problems.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white"><br>
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</span><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Participants will have four hours to complete an exam of ten physics questions in teams of three to four students. A<span style="background:white">s teams are not expected to be
from the same year nor to have covered the same physics syllabus across the world, we would like the questions to be self-contained, i.e., if there’s a specific equation needed or a specialised bit of physics, it should be included in the question brief. This
is so as not to penalise students from different courses and to focus on the problem-solving and ingenuity of the individual or team. They should be of appropriate length and challenge. Marking schemes must also be included, with marks distributed up to ten.
All questions in the exam will have equal weighting (regardless of topic) in order to help the organisers standardise them. Previous PLANCKS exam papers can be found</span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><a href="https://ioporg-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/plancks_physics_org/EuVcnyDtX-tMukCzycnBRyEBvTfePzOgOBWO_quV4sDsDQ?e=8zS4cx">here</a><span class="contentpasted1"> <span style="background:white">to
be used as a reference. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">We aim to have a wide range of physics problems that are thought-provoking</span></span><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">,
so even if you can’t supply a question, we would be grateful if you passed the opportunity on to someone you think would be interested in contributing. <span style="background:white">Contributions can </span>come from non-IOP members. </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted1">The deadline for submitting questions is Friday 15<sup>th</sup> December 2023. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted1">If you have a problem to contribute or any questions, please </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:PLANCKS@physics.org" title="PLANCKS@physics.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white">contact
us</span></a><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="background:white">.</span></span><br>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Anthony Quinlan</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">PLANCKS Advisory Board</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Website: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.plancks.uk/" title="https://www.plancks.uk/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">plancks.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Twitter: <span class="contentpasted0"><span style="background:white"><a href="https://twitter.com/PLANCKS_UK_IRE" title="https://twitter.com/PLANCKS_UK_IRE">@PLANCKS_UK_IRE<br>
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