14th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Lomba yang diadakan di kota bogor ini merupakan lomba yang sangat bergengsi. Biasanya soal-soal APhO lebih sulit dibandingkan dengan soal-soal IPhO (international physics Olympiad). Banyak para peraih medali perunggu APhO mendapat medali emas dalam IPhO. APhO tahun ini diikuti oleh 20 negara. Semoga tim Indonesia bisa berjaya.

Welcome Letter from Pak. Hendra Kwee, M.Sc., Ph.D.

It is an honor for us to host the 14th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in May 5 - 13, 2013 in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. We warmly welcome all delegations from Asian region to Indonesia. The event is sponsored by PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom), the largest telecommunication service provider company in Indonesia, and organized by Surya Institute, a non profit foundation founded by Prof. Yohanes Surya, Ph.D. that actively promotes science and mathematics in Indonesia. Indonesia has organized the first APhO in the year 2000 in Karawaci, Banten, the 6th APhO in the year 2005 in Pekanbaru, Riau, and the 33rd International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in the year 2002 in Nusa Dua, Bali. We are honored to be the host of APhO again.

Syllabus 

A. Theoretical Part

The first column contains the main entries while the second column contains comments and remarks if necessary.

1. Mechanics

1.	Foundation of kinematics of a point mass.	Vector description of the position of the point mass, velocity and acceleration as vectors.
2.	Newton's laws, inertial systems.	Problems may be set on changing mass.
3.	Closed and open systems, momentum and energy, work, power.
4.	Elastic forces, frictional forces, the law of gravitation, potential energy and work in a gravitational field.	Hooke's law, coefficient of friction (F/R = const), frictional forces static and kinetic, choice of zero of potential energy.
5.	Centripetal acceleration, Kepler's laws

  

2. Mechanics of Rigid Bodies

1.	Statics, center of mass, torque.	Couples, conditions of equilibrium of bodies.
2.	Motion of rigid bodies, translation, rotation, angular velocity, angular acceleration, conservation of angular  momentum.	Conservation of angular momentum about fixed axis only
3.	External and internal forces, equation of motion of a rigid body around the fixed axis, moment of inertia, kinetic energy of a rotating body.	Parallel axes theorem (Steiner's theorem), additivity of the moment of inertia.
4.	Accelerated reference systems, inertial forces.	Knowledge of the Coriolis force formula is not require

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

1.	Internal energy, work and heat, first and second laws of thermodynamics.	Thermal equilibrium, quantities depending on state and quantities depending on process.
2.	Model of a perfect gas, pressure and molecular kinetic energy,  Avogadro's number, equation of state of a perfect gas, absolute temperature.	Also molecular approach to such simple phenomena in liquids and solids as boiling, melting etc
3.	Work done by an expanding gas limited to isothermal and adiabatic processes.	Proof of the equation of the adiabatic process is not required.
4.	The Carnot cycle, thermodynamic efficiency,  reversible and irreversible processes,  entropy(statistical approach), Boltzmann factor.	Entropy as a path independent function, entropy changes and reversibility, quasistatic processes.

5. Oscillations and waves

1.	Harmonic oscillations, equation of harmonic oscillation.	Solution of the equation for harmonic motion, attenuation and resonance - qualitatively.
2.	Harmonic waves, propagation of waves, transverse and longitudinal waves, linear polarization, the classical Doppler effect, sound waves.	Displacement in a progressive wave and understanding of graphical representation of the wave, measurements of velocity of sound and light, Doppler effect in one dimension only, propagation of waves in homogeneous and isotropic media, reflection and refraction, Fermat's principle.
3.	Superposition of harmonic waves, coherent waves, interference, beats, standing waves.	Realization that intensity of wave is proportional to the square of its amplitude. Fourier analysis is no required but candidates should have some understanding that complex waves can be made from addition of simple sinusoidal waves of different frequencies. Interference due to thin films and other simple systems (final formulae are not required), superposition of waves from secondary sources (diffraction)

6. Electric Charge and Electric Field

1.	Conservation of charge, Coulomb's law.
2.	Electric field, potential, Gauss' law.	Gauss' law confined to simple symmetric systems like sphere, cylinder, plate etc., electric dipole moment.
3.	Capacitors, capacitance, dielectric constant, energy density of electric field.

  

7. Current and Magnetic Field

1.	Current, resistance, internal resistance of source, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, work and power of direct and alternating currents, Joule's law.	Simple cases of circuits containing non-ohmic devices with known V-I characteristics.
2.	Magnetic field (B) of a current, current in a magnetic field, Lorentz force.	Particles in a magnetic field, simple applications like cyclotron, magnetic dipole moment
3.	Ampere's law.	Magnetic field of simple symmetric systems like straight wire, circular loop and long solenoid
4.	Law of electromagnetic induction, magnetic flux, Lenz's  law, self-induction, inductance, permeability, energy density of magnetic field.
5.	Alternating current, resistors, inductors and capacitors in AC-circuits, voltage and current(parallel and series) resonances.	Simple AC-circuits, time constants, final formulae for parameters of concrete resonance circuits are not required.

  

8. Electromagnetic waves

1.	Oscillatory circuit, frequency of oscillations, generation by feedback and resonance.
2.	Wave optics, diffraction from one and two slits, diffraction grating, resolving power of a grating, Bragg reflection.
3.	Dispersion and diffraction spectra, line spectra of gases.	Superposition of polarized waves.
4.	Electromagnetic waves as transverse, waves polarization by reflection, polarizers.
5.	Resolving power of imaging systems.
6.	Black body, Stefan-Boltzmann law.	Planck's formula is not required

  

9. Quantum Physics

1.	Photoelectric effect, energy and impulse of the photon.	Einstein's formula is required
2.	De Broglie wavelength, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

 10. Relativity

1.	Principle of relativity, addition of velocities, relativistic Doppler effect.
2.	Relativistic equation of motion,   momentum, energy, relation between energy and mass, conservation of energy and momentum.

 11. Matter

1.	Simple applications of the Bragg equation.
2.	Energy levels of atoms and molecules (qualitatively), emission, absorption, spectrum of hydrogen-like atoms.
3.	Energy levels of nuclei (qualitatively), alpha-, beta- and gamma-decays, absorption of radiation, half-life and exponential decay, components of nuclei, mass defect, nuclear reactions

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.

Source:

http://apho2013.suryainstitute.org/index.php