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The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), initiated in the year of 2000 by Indonesia,is an annual international physics competition devoted to students of secondary schools in Asia region. It is usually held in late April or early May in which more than twenty countries and regions have participated in the competition since its beginning. Its conduction exactly follows that of International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) except each participating country can send eight contestants at most instead of five in IPhO. The APhO has not only greatly promoted the quality of physics education in Asia region, but also provide an additional opportunityand opened an extra window for bright young students to widen their view over the outside world
The Theoretical Part of the Syllabus provides the basis for all the experimental problems. The experimental problems given in the experimental contest should contain measurements.
The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), initiated in the year of 2000 by Indonesia,is an annual international physics competition devoted to students of secondary schools in Asia region. It is usually held in late April or early May in which more than twenty countries and regions have participated in the competition since its beginning. Its conduction exactly follows that of International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) except each participating country can send eight contestants at most instead of five in IPhO. The APhO has not only greatly promoted the quality of physics education in Asia region, but also provide an additional opportunityand opened an extra window for bright young students to widen their view over the outside world
THE SYLLABUS
（the same as those described in the International Physics Olympiads）
General
(a) The extensive use of the calculus (differentiation and integration) and the use of complex numbers or solving differential
equations should not be required to solve the theoretical and practical problems.
(b) Questions may contain concepts and phenomena not contained in the Syllabus but sufficient information must be given in
the questions so that candidates without previous knowledge of these topics would not be at a disadvantage.
(c) Sophisticated practical equipment likely to be unfamiliar to the candidates should not dominate a problem. If such devices
are used then careful instructions must be given to the candidates.
(d) The original texts of the problems have to be set in the SI units.
equations should not be required to solve the theoretical and practical problems.
(b) Questions may contain concepts and phenomena not contained in the Syllabus but sufficient information must be given in
the questions so that candidates without previous knowledge of these topics would not be at a disadvantage.
(c) Sophisticated practical equipment likely to be unfamiliar to the candidates should not dominate a problem. If such devices
are used then careful instructions must be given to the candidates.
(d) The original texts of the problems have to be set in the SI units.
A. Theoretical Part
The first column contains the main entries while the second column contains comments and remarks if necessary.
| 1. Mechanics | ||||||||||||
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| 2. Mechanics of Rigid Bodies | ||||||||
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| 3. Hydromechanics |
| No specific questions will be set on this but students would be expected to know the elementary concepts of pressure, buoyancy and the continuity law. |
| 4. Thermodynamics and Molecular Physics | ||||||||
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| 5. Oscillations and waves | ||||||
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| 6. Electric Charge and Electric Field | ||||||
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| 7. Current and Magnetic Field | ||||||||||
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| 8. Electromagnetic waves | ||||||||||||
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| 9. Quantum Physics | ||||
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| 10. Relativity | ||
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| 11. Matter | |||
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B. Practical Part
The Theoretical Part of the Syllabus provides the basis for all the experimental problems. The experimental problems given in the experimental contest should contain measurements.
Additional requirements:
- Candidates must be aware that instruments affect measurements.
- Knowledge of the most common experimental techniques for measuring physical quantities mentioned in Part A.
- Knowledge of commonly used simple laboratory instruments and devices such as calipers, thermometers, simple volt-, ohm- and ammeters, potentiometers, diodes, transistors, simple optical devices and so on.
- Ability to use, with the help of proper instruction, some sophisticated instruments and devices such as double-beam oscilloscope, counter, ratemeter, signal and function generators, analog-to-digital converter connected to a computer, amplifier, integrator, differentiator, power supply, universal (analog and digital) volt-, ohm- and ammeters.
- Proper identification of error sources and estimation of their influence on the final result(s).
- Absolute and relative errors, accuracy of measuring instruments, error of a single measurement, error of a series of measurements, error of a quantity given as a function of measured quantities.
- Transformation of dependence to the linear form by appropriate choice of variables and fitting a straight line to experimental points.
- Proper use of the graph paper with different scales (for example polar and logarithmic papers).
- Correct rounding off and expressing the final result(s) and error(s) with correct number of significant digits.
- Standard knowledge of safety in laboratory work. (Nevertheless, if the experimental set-up contains any safety hazards the appropriate warnings should be included into the text of the problem.)
