[Academic] Help supply questions for the physics competition PLANCKS

[Physics Study Enquiries]

Dear Physics Community,



The IOP is looking for physicists to supply questions for next year's PLANCKS <http://plancks.uk/> 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.



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.

Participants will have four hours to complete an exam of ten physics questions in teams of three to four students. As 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 here<https://ioporg-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/plancks_physics_org/EuVcnyDtX-tMukCzycnBRyEBvTfePzOgOBWO_quV4sDsDQ?e=8zS4cx> to be used as a reference.



We aim to have a wide range of physics problems that are thought-provoking, 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. Contributions can come from non-IOP members.

The deadline for submitting questions is Friday 15th December 2023.

If you have a problem to contribute or any questions, please contact us<mailto:PLANCKS at physics.org>.


Kind regards,

Anthony Quinlan

PLANCKS Advisory Board
Website: plancks.uk<https://www.plancks.uk/>
Twitter: @PLANCKS_UK_IRE
<https://twitter.com/PLANCKS_UK_IRE>
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