Welcome to the KTH-CHALMERS National selection on friday 30th January!
The KTH IPT team welcomes you to spectate the national selection between KTH and Chalmers. The winner will represent Sweden in the International Physicists' Tournament. The competition works by having "physics fights" where the opposing team challange each other on open physics problems. They can reject the challange and loose point in form of a penalty or accept it and present their work. The other team will then oppose on their presentation and finally the reporter and opponent will discuss to come to a conclusion. Then a jury will give points to the reporter and opponent based on the work presented and the following discussion.- Venue: Lise Meitner Audiatorium FD5
- Date: Friday 30th January
- Time: 13:00–18:00
Schedule
- 13:00–13:15 — Rules summary
- 13:15–14:15 — PF1 round 1
- 14:15–15:15 — PF1 round 2
- 15:15–15:30 — Fika
- 15:30–16:30 — PF2 round 1
- 16:30–17:30 — PF2 round 2
- 17:30–17:45 — Score counting
Fight Anatomy
- 1 min — The Opponent challenges the Reporter to present a problem
- 1 min — The Reporter accepts or rejects the challenge
- 5 min — Preparation of the Reporter
- 10 min — Presentation of the report
- 2 min — Questions from the Opponent to the Reporter and answers
- 3 min — Preparation of the Opponent
- 5 min — The Opponent’s speech
- 8 min — Discussion between the Reporter and the Opponent
- 5 min — General discussion between the teams
- 1 min — Concluding remarks by the Reporter
- 6 min — Questions from the Jury
- 2 min — Jury decides marks
- 5 min — Jury remarks / comments
Problems
1. Tin Can Telephone
3. Ping Pong Balls Cannon
7. Double Decker Newton's Cradle
8. Eddy Current Engine
9. Water "Laser"
11. Cosmic Skyscraper Tomography
12. Kinetic Voltmeter
16. Singing Flame