The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Drake University has launches the 2017 Drake Physics Prize Examination, offering a scholarship opportunity to encourage interest in physics, astronomy and physical sciences.
1st place - an unrestricted four-year, full-tuition scholarship to Drake University, a personal trophy and the Drake Physics Trophy
2nd place - personal trophy
3rd place - personal trophy
Honorable mention - certificate of achievement (awarded to the next 25 placers)
Top 50 seniors - an invitation to apply for a second four-year, full-tuition scholarship, restricted to physics or astronomy majors.
The examination is open to any student enrolled in a high school in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and some select areas in Illinois. It will cover topics in physics that would normally be studied by students during the first semester of their high school physics course: kinematics, dynamics, circular motion, universal law of momentum and collisions, work, energy and conversation of energy, torque, rotational kinematics, dynamics and energy, angular momentum conservation, mechanical waves and sound. The principal of each participating school is asked to supervise the objective-type examination, which should be done at the school at a specified time between Wednesday, February 1st and Friday, February 3rd, 2017.
The test will be administered on the internet. The exam is given in two parts. Part I is multiple choice with no partial credit. Part II is composed of more complicated multiple-choice problems for which, however, partial credit is given. Students wishing to take the tests should register online by 1:00pm on Monday, January 30th.
Please let me know if you are interested in participating in this examination.
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