Making Physics Phun
Physics Phight is a multi-month hackathon-style competition designed to incentivize middle & high school students to learn through collaboration and research. The longer time period allows deliberation, investigation, and experimentation.
Physics Phight features a progressive difficulty packet, meaning that later questions are more challenging and designed to build upon previous questions. This creates a learning path to ensure long-term understanding.
Instead of taking a memorization-based test, students can use as many resources as they need. This establishes a system not of rote recollection but of true comprehension.
What is Physics Phight
Our Mission
Loving learning is one of the most powerful ways to incentivize students everywhere to explore new horizons.
We hope to use our physics expertise to build that passion for the pursuit of knowledge.
Our Mission is three-fold:
One
Teach students to self-learn physics and seek exploration
Two
Create critical thinkers who develop experimental, unconventional solutions to physics problems
Three
Encourage collaboration with fellow students, enhancing learning experience
Scoring
Categories
The test packet is split into 4 categories of increasing difficulty: Standard, Bronze, Silver, Gold
Questions in each category are scored EQUALLY
It is recommended to work your way up through categories
How to Score
To gauge learning, only the top 10 correct-scoring questions will be scored.
E.g., if a student correctly solve 5 Gold and 10 Silver, 5 Gold and 5 Silver will be scored
If the student then solves 1 more Silver, that Silver is not scored
However, if the student instead solved 1 more Gold, that Gold will be scored in place of a Silver
Contents
Kinematics, Thermodynamics, Optics, Fluids, Calculus, Particle, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics
Packet Submissions
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2025
Our Team
We are a group of 11th and 12th grade students at BASIS Independent Silicon Valley with a passion for physics we'd like to share.
Leo Li - Website, Lead Packet & Solutions Writer, Support
Lucas Quan - Packet Writer
Liam Tran - Packet Writer