Experimenting with light at the 6th European Physics Olympiad

Stergar, Jošt (author), Čopar, Simon (author)

A good experimental task for a high school physics competition requires an interesting and relatable topic, careful testing, and meeting constraints of time, budget, and curriculum. This article presents the experimental task from the European Physics Olympiad in the year 2022. The students explored the properties of light sources, such as their colour temperature, angular light distribution, efficacy, and heating. The task was stated without explicit instructions, inviting the students to devise their own approach to measurement and data processing. The original task was designed for a level slightly above the European high-school curriculum, so parts of it can be directly used as a lab exercise at a university level or simplified and given more specific instructions for inclusion in high school level education.

• Language: English
• Keywords: physics competition, physics olympiad, experimental tasks, light
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 06.03.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 45, no. 2, art. no. 024001
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154888
• UDC: 535
• ISSN on article: 0143-0807
• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/ad261e
• COBISS.SI-ID: 187986179
• Publication date in RUL: 07.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European journal of physics
• Shortened title: Eur. j. phys.
• Publisher: Institute of Physics
• ISSN: 0143-0807
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25430528

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: fizika, tekmovanja, fizikalna olimpiada, eksperimentalne naloge, svetloba