School of Physics and Astronomy
The physics experience
Photo: Elizabeth Appelquist, Sania Lewis, Emma Elley & Hildegard Metzger
Congratulations to Maxwell’s Angels (aka Elizabeth Appelquist, Sania Lewis, Emma Elley & Hildegard Metzger) who achieved fourth place in the IBM Universities Business Challenge Grand Final in London this weekend.
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Photo: University of Edinburgh teams at the PLANCKS Preliminaries
Congratulations to Christos, Ethan, Mike and Matthaios who made first place in the PLANCKS UK preliminaries, and to the University of Edinburgh teams who made it to places 4, 6, 8 and 10 out of 19 teams!
Christos, Ethan, Mike and Matthaios now have the opportunity to participate in the international final which takes place in Denmark in May as members of the UK delegation, alongside teams from Kent and Oxford.
The competition, with a four hour exam, was held at the new headquarters of the IOP at King’s Cross in London. The School of Physics and Astronomy fielded a strong contingent to the competition. Although the exam was viewed as much tougher than in previous years, 5 of the teams in the upper half were from Edinburgh!
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Photo: Jacob Kemprud, Matt Chouzouris and Bowei Zhang
The University Physics Competition is an international contest for undergraduate students, who work in teams of three and spend a weekend in November analysing a real-world scenario using the principles of physics and writing a formal paper describing their work.
Congratulations to year 2 students Jacob Kemprud, Matt Chouzouris and Bowei Zhang who achieved a silver medal in the competition. Out of approximately 300 teams, this trio were ranked in the top 18% – which is an excellent achievement!
Their task involved analysing a spacecraft’s dynamics during acceleration in the problem ‘Sending a Light Sail Propelled Nanocraft to Alpha Centauri’.
University Physics Competition: http://www.uphysicsc.com/home.html
