2024 — 2025: Physics

School stu­dents of grades 8–11 from Rus­sia and of equi­val­ent grades from all over the world are invited to participate.

Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the com­pet­i­tion is free. All school stu­dents can take part in the qual­i­fy­ing round and the win­ners of it are invited to the final round. Win­ners of the pre­vi­ous Olympi­ad (with dip­lo­mas of any degree) are also invited dir­ectly to the finals.

Olympiad’s organ­izers

The Olympi­ad 2024/25 is organ­ized by

Saint Peters­burg Elec­tro­tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity «LETI»

State Mar­ine Tech­nic­al University

Balt­ic State Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity ‘Voen­meh’ named after D. F. Ustinov

Con­tact us

You can send your ques­tions by e‑mail olimp.​phys@​formulo.​org.


Current status: The final round is scheduled for March 16 (55 days left).

Chronology of events

All the news about the Olympiad are posted below from newest to oldest.

Date of final round

January 18, 2025

Dear par­ti­cipants!
The organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee agreed on the date of the final (in-per­son) round.

The Math­em­at­ics Olympi­ad will be held on March 16, 2025.

Inform­a­tion about ven­ues and regis­tra­tion will be avail­able later.

Please stay tuned for updates.

Res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round

December 31, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants!

Indi­vidu­al res­ults are avail­able in per­son­al accounts of our Inform­a­tion sys­tem. The par­ti­cipants who reached the threshold score will be invited to the final round.

And in the pro­tocol of the qual­i­fy­ing round:

If you do not see your­self in the pro­tocol, this means that you have not yet filled out the neces­sary per­son­al data in your per­son­al account.
The points for passing to the final round by class are as follows:

8th grade

9th grade

10th grade

11th grade

7 points

6 points

6 points

5 points

Fol­low the updates on the web­site. Inform­a­tion about the date and ven­ues will appear in 2025.

Organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee address: olimp.​phys@​formulo.​org.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the final­ists and see you at the final stage!

Pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing stage

December 25, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants, the pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing stage have been pub­lished. The res­ults can be viewed in your per­son­al account.

Solu­tions to the tasks of the qual­i­fy­ing stage:

in case of tech­nic­al errors or ques­tions about the eval­u­ation cri­ter­ia, please send an email isys@​formulo.​org . Requests are accep­ted until Decem­ber 28, 2024. 

The sub­ject of the let­ter is «Appeal.Physics».

In the text, you must spe­cify the par­ti­cipant’s full name, class, and explain what you dis­agree with.

Please note that the task for which you are appeal­ing is being rechecked, not the entire work.

Thank you for par­ti­cip­at­ing in the qual­i­fy­ing round.

December 8, 2024

The qual­i­fy­ing round of the Olympi­ad is over!

The res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round of the Olympi­ad will be pub­lished on the web­site no later than Decem­ber 31, 2024.

Start of the qual­i­fy­ing round

November 16, 2024

Here is the qual­i­fy­ing (remote) round of the competition.

We will be happy if your friends who like phys­ics also par­ti­cip­ate. How­ever, every assign­ment should be done indi­vidu­ally; oth­er­wise, your sub­mis­sion will not be considered.

The win­ners of Olympi­ad 2023/24 (those with Dip­lo­mas I‑III) can par­ti­cip­ate dir­ectly in the final round.

Prob­lems

The qual­i­fy­ing round is tra­di­tion­ally held for stu­dents in grades 8–11 in a test format: for each task, you only need to enter the answer, which is either a num­ber or a let­ter. In some tasks, the answer may be a for­mula or the answer «no solu­tion».

How to sub­mit solutions

To par­ti­cip­ate in the «For­mula of Unity» / «Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2024/25 phys­ics olympi­ad, it is neces­sary to sub­mit solu­tion by the dead­line of 23:59:59 UTC on Decem­ber 7, 2024 (which is 02:59:59 Moscow time on Decem­ber 8). Please register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem and sub­mit your solu­tions through the per­son­al account. Import­ant: if you already have an account, there is no need to cre­ate a new one.

Be sure to read the par­ti­cip­a­tion instructions.
The form for sub­mit­ting answers will be open from Novem­ber 18.

We do not accept qual­i­fy­ing round works in any way oth­er than through upload­ing with­in the inform­a­tion system.

Ques­tions?

All ques­tions to the Organ­iz­ing Com­mit­tee about the prob­lem con­di­tions and the pro­ced­ure for con­duct­ing the Olympi­ad can be asked by email olimp@​formulo.​org or +7(981)-750–19-21 Alex­an­dra (write in What­s­app or Telegram).

Ques­tions about the oper­a­tion of the inform­a­tion sys­tem can be asked by email isys@​formulo.​org.

Rules of the Olympiad

November 15, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants!
Please read the rules of the Olympi­ad to avoid errors in writ­ing your answers:

1. The first round of the Olympi­ad is in absen­tia and the answers are checked auto­mat­ic­ally, that is, a spe­cial pro­gram com­pares your answer with the cor­rect one, included in the pro­gram by the organ­izers. There­fore, to pre­vent pos­sible mis­un­der­stand­ings, care­fully read the instruc­tions and act in accord­ance with them.
All appeals for fail­ure to com­ply with the rules of the instruc­tions will not be considered.
2. All prob­lems provide an answer in the form of a num­ber or sev­er­al num­bers, for each of which a cor­res­pond­ing field is provided. Be care­ful and do not con­fuse the answer fields. If you insert the cor­rect answers in the wrong fields, the pro­gram will not accept them.
3. Spe­cify answers only as a decim­al frac­tion: XX,XXX… Use a comma (,) as a separator.
4. It is not neces­sary (pro­hib­ited) to insert units of meas­ure­ment, for­mu­las or any words in the answer.
5. If the prob­lem state­ment does not spe­cify the units to use for the answer, use SI units: meters, kilo­grams, seconds, etc.
6. Since all meas­ure­ments and cal­cu­la­tions in phys­ics are approx­im­ate, all answers must be giv­en with the cor­rect num­ber of sig­ni­fic­ant digits. For the rules of approx­im­ate cal­cu­la­tions, see the file «Rules of approx­im­ate cal­cu­la­tions». If there are zer­os after the required num­ber of sig­ni­fic­ant digits in an integer, this will not be con­sidered an error. Writ­ing the num­ber 34,0 (3 sig­ni­fic­ant digits) as 34 will be con­sidered an error.
7. You have 3 weeks to provide answers. Works sent later will not be considered.

Regis­tra­tion for the Olympiad

October 2, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants!

The start of the qual­i­fy­ing round is just around the corner.

Please do not worry that there are no cur­rent Olympi­ads in the «Olympi­ads» sec­tion of your per­son­al account.

We do not have pre­lim­in­ary regis­tra­tion for the Olympiad.

The Olympi­ad itself, the con­di­tions and the form for sub­mit­ting answers will be avail­able in your per­son­al account start­ing from Novem­ber 16 (the day the Olympi­ad starts).

Announce­ment of the Qual­i­fy­ing Round

September 3, 2024

The Olympi­ad is con­duc­ted in two stages, the first of which (the qual­i­fy­ing round) takes place in the autumn, and the second (the final round) takes place in February-March.

The qual­i­fy­ing round is con­duc­ted in an online format using remote edu­ca­tion­al technologies.
Dates for the online qual­i­fy­ing rounds:
Math­em­at­ics: 20.10.24 — 10.11.24
Phys­ics: 16.11.24 — 07.12.24
Eng­lish: 20.10.24 — 13.11.24

The final round is (usu­ally) held in per­son at region­al venues.
To par­ti­cip­ate, you need to register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem (re-regis­tra­tion is not neces­sary). On the day the Olympi­ad begins (20.10.24), all the neces­sary inform­a­tion will be sent to your email.

Win­ners of the Olympi­ad receive a spe­cial vouch­er for edu­ca­tion­al camps «For­mula Unity.»

You can also find all inform­a­tion about the Olympi­ad on the offi­cial page at the portal olimpi​ada​.ru.

For a more suc­cess­ful par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Olympi­ad, we recom­mend solv­ing prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years and study­ing the recom­men­ded lit­er­at­ure. You can also pur­chase col­lec­tions of Olympi­ad prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years in print.