Rule Books

2024 Rule Book

The 2024 UBC Physics Olympics will be on Saturday, March 9, 2024. This in-person event will be from 9am to 4pm on UBC campus.

  • 2024 Updated Rule Book + Addendum (NEW!
  • Pre-build 1 (c/o Valery Milner: vmilner@phas.ubc.ca) “Cool it Down” Rule book, Rule book addendum
  • Pre-build 2: (c/o Andrzej Kotlicki: kotlicki@phas.ubc.ca) “Solar-powered car” Rule book
  • Lab 1:  “Stay Focused”: A hands-on challenge in geometrical optics
  • Lab 2: “The Sound of Science”: Exploring waves, interference, and vibration.
  • Quizzics! (Quizzics! questions will be introduced at the event)
  • Fermi Questions (Fermi questions will be introduced at the event)

Here you can see Rule Books from previous years:

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.