Welcome to Prague Physics Challenge Homepage

Prague Physics Challenge (PPCh) is an international physics competition aimed at advanced high school and university students. The competition is organized remotely; there are sets of problems published on this website more-or-less periodically and contestants send us their solutions via e-mail. To view the current set, go to the last set of problems. After the deadline of a particular set, participants get their solutions back corrected and evaluated.

The primary goal of PPCh is to offer you interesting and more complex physics problems than those usual in schools and universities. Problems have various difficulty (and corresponding maximum of points) in order to offer problem-solving experience to a wider variety of students interested in physics (we do not want to restrict anybody from solving our problems because of some limits of reached physical knowledge; on the contrary, our goal is to give a motivation to enrich the knowledge of competitors).

On request, we can give you some hints to a particular problem for a cost of a points loss, but increasing chances of solving the problem.

If you want to participate, you can start now by seeing the current set of problems.

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