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Paperclip Physics

Paperclip Physics. Paperclip Physics. Do you have the skills to: Communicate physics to a non-scientist? Work as part of a team? Build a physics demonstration from items found around the home?. Paperclip Physics.

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Paperclip Physics

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  1. Paperclip Physics

  2. Paperclip Physics Do you have the skills to: • Communicate physics to a non-scientist? • Work as part of a team? • Build a physics demonstration from items found around the home?

  3. Paperclip Physics • The aim of the competition is to design and demonstrate an experiment to explain the physics behind some application or device, or demonstrate a physics law or principle, using only items that could be found in a normal home. • Judges include a physics teacher, a non-scientist and a third level physicist

  4. Paperclip Physics • Competition is open to Transition year & first-year Leaving Certificate • Overall winners of the competition in Ireland are funded to go to the Institute of Physics headquarters in London for a Grand Final • Every school should receive an application form during the autumn term

  5. Alison Hackett Institute of Physics Representative in Ireland c/o School of Science and Technology Institute of Art Design and Technology Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin www.tcd.ie/IOP/ alison.hackett@iop.org

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