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Irish Physics Olympiad 2011

  • 17-03-2011 01:48PM
    #1
    St.Patrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi guys,

    I'm representing my school in this years physics olympiad and I would like to do the best I possibly can in it.

    So I was wondering if anyone has any access to what questions can be asked in the test.

    Past exam papers for the test.

    Tips on what I should be studying.

    Can anyone help me with these?? :)
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Comments

  • #2
    sparagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭sparagon


    And chemistry anyone?


  • #3
    noah45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭noah45


    Going up to the chemistry one tomorrow.


  • #4
    M_ark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭M_ark


    Agh doing the physics one tomorrow, I wish we got more info about it, like what we can bring and that


  • #5
    noah45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭noah45


    it tells you on the website what to bring. I gather there are no past papers to look at, according to the FAQ


  • #6
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    I did the chemistry one in 2009 and there was no access allowed to past papers, I'm fairly sure. :)

    Good luck, it's great fun!


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  • #7
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭clartharlear


    How did it go? I'd really appreciate any reports of the olympiad.


  • #8
    M_ark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭M_ark


    Well I was at the physics one and got one of the silvers. There were 2 papers and about 50 people doing it i'd say, 1st paper was similar length questions to the leaving cert, lots of diagram drawing. It was interesting enough, got a really weird question on radioactivity where you had to work out how much a sheet of lead affected the measured activity of a radon isotope using a graph. Working out the linear attenuation coefficient or something.

    There was a second paper of short questions then, lots related to applied maths so it was tough if you hadn't done it, I hadn't. Anything else in particular you would like to know?


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