Rule Books

2026 Rule Book

The 2026 UBC Physics Olympics will be held on Saturday, February 28th, 2026. This in-person event will be from 9am to 4pm on UBC campus in the Hennings, Hebb and Woodward buildings.

Here, we will add prebuild and lab rule updates, as necessary.

  • Pre-build 1 (c/o Valery Milner: vmilner@phas.ubc.ca) 
  • Pre-build 2: (c/o Andrzej Kotlicki: kotlicki@phas.ubc.ca)
  • Lab 1:  “TBD” [the details of this lab will be shared with participants when they start the event]
  • Lab 2:  “TBD” [the details of this lab will be shared with participants when they start the event]

Question events:

  • Quizzics! [This is a live, game-show style event]
  • Fermi Questions [the questions for this event will be shared with participants when they start the event]

Interested in the rules from last year? 

→ Read the 2025 Rule Book


Here you can see Rule Books from previous years:

                                                                2025, 2024, 2023, 2022

2021, 20202019, 201820172016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012

2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004 , 2003 , 2002

2001 , 2000 , 1999 , 1998 , 1997 , 1996 , 1995 , 1994 , 1993 , 1992

Or, you can download all of the rule books from 1992 – 2011 in a single file.