{"id":328386,"date":"2024-01-23T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=328386"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:57:17","slug":"warsaw-university-students-win-polish-physics-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/warsaw-university-students-win-polish-physics-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw University students win Polish Physics Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw (UW), consisting of Jakub Ko\u015bmicki (captain), Sara Ga\u0142an, Pawe\u0142 Ka\u0142wak, Piotr \u0141ukawski, Kuba Hevler and Magdalena Or\u0142owska, won the Polish Physicists&#8217; Tournament, thus qualifying for the world competition in the International Physicists&#8217; Tournament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UW was represented by six students, who had to solve tasks requiring experiments and theory testing. How do you break the central limit theorem in a physical system? When does a circle with its mass distributed asymmetrically, rather than in the centre, break away from the ground? Such questions were answered by UW representatives at the Polish Tournament of Physicists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The students knew the tasks beforehand and had been preparing their solutions since the beginning of the semester: they conducted experiments, tested various theories and wrote programmes to simulate physical phenomena&#8221;, says team supervisor Pawe\u0142 Szczypkowski from the Physics Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to their victory in the tournament, the young physicists qualified for the International Physicists&#8217; Tournament, which will be held in Zurich in April.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw (UW), consisting of Jakub Ko\u015bmicki (captain), Sara Ga\u0142an, Pawe\u0142 Ka\u0142wak, Piotr \u0141ukawski, Kuba Hevler and Magdalena Or\u0142owska, won the Polish Physicists&#8217; Tournament, thus qualifying for the world competition in the International Physicists&#8217; Tournament.\u00a0 The UW was represented by six students, who had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":328286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328394,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328386\/revisions\/328394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}