Draft 2017 IYPT Reference Kit
Draft 2017 IYPT Reference Kit
Draft 2017 IYPT Reference Kit
http://iynt.org
Call for cooperation
If you are interested in the idea behind the Kit to structure the existing knowledge about
the physics behind the problems and to encourage students to contrast their personal
contribution from the existing knowledge your cooperation is welcome
If more contributors join the work on the Kit for 2017, or plan bringing together the Kit for
2018, good editions may be completed earlier
It would be of benefit for everybody,
students and team leaders, who would have an early reference (providing a first impetus
to the work) and a strong warning that IYPT is all about appropriate, novel research, and
not about re-inventing the wheel
jurors, who would have a brief, informal supporting material, possibly making them more
skeptical and objective about the presentations
the audience outside the IYPT, who benefits from the structured references in e.g. physics
popularization activities and physics teaching
the IYPT, as a community and a center of competence, that generates vibrant, state-of-
the-art research problems, widely used in other activities and at other events
and also the author (-s) of the Kit, who could rapidly acquire a competence for the future
activities and have a great learning experience
How to tackle the IYPT problems?
How to structure a report? Look through the historical solutions in the Archive
What level is competitive?
How to set the goals, fix the an opportunity for goal-oriented
priorities, and set the direction critical learning
of the work? examples, not guidelines
How were people resolving those solutions were good, but
particular issues in the past? yours should be better!
Is the novel research limited and
discouraged by the existing common
knowledge and the ongoing work of
competing groups? :-)
Feedback and interaction
Let us know if the Kit is helpful in your preparations and
whether you benefit from our speaking engagements
*
// The epigraph for the IYPT 2017 problems approved by the IYPT Founder Evgeny Yunosov
[carriesweetlife 2010]
R.P. Feynman. Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman (Norton, New York, NY, 1985)
Pre-register a team!
1
Foundation for Youth Tournaments; 2 Comenius University in Bratislava;
3
Sharif University of Technology; 4 University of Michigan
iypt