British Physics Olympiad Success

Every year, the physics department encourages boys to enter the British Physics Olympiad Practical Competition 2014. This is a very prestigious competition which is run by the physics department of University of Oxford and entered by schools all over the country.

This year the challenge was to investigate the slingshot effect used in space missions using a simplified model involving dropping a tennis ball on top of a football, the tennis ball then gains energy from the football when it bounces off the floor.

Congratulations to Ben Shuker and Tristan Liu in the Lower 6 who have been awarded gold awards, the highest award, for their entry and to Arush Pathak and Mario Demetroudi in Year 11 who have been awarded silver awards for theirs.