Explorer Competition
What is it?
Every year, hundreds of high school-level students from around the globe form teams and compete by responding to an open-ended research-based assignment containing questions inspired by groundbreaking discoveries in physics, and submit their work after a two week-long period in the form of a report.
This event is called the
Physics Unlimited Explorer Competition.
The
2021 Explorer Competition took place in February/March.
Beginning with the
2022 edition the event takes place in April.
Explorer 2023 took place April 1(2) - 18, and the assignment can be viewed
here.
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The 2020 Explorer Competition consisted of a single assignment on orbital resonance.
Please see
this page to view the details and results.
The 2018 Explorer Competition consisted of a two-part assignment, with one section on quantum mechanics and one section on statistical mechanics.
Please see
this page to view the assignment details and results.
Physics Unlimited's inaugural team-based
Explorer Competition took place in November/December 2017.
Please see
this archived page to view the assignments and results from that event.