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Physics and Engineering Physics

High School

Page for Students and Teachers
Welcome to the PEP resource page for high schools, dedicated to improving the interaction between Saskatchewan High Schools and the University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics (PEP).
Last Update: May 17, 2013
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Winners of the
2013 CAP High School Prize Examination

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics is pleased to announce the province of Saskatchewan winners of the 2013 Canadian Association of Physicists High School Prize Examination.

First Prize goes to Joshua Schell of Humboldt who attends Humboldt Collegiate Institute.

Second prize goes to Xiaocuan Yu of Saskatoon who attends Walter Murray Collegiate Institute.

Third prize goes to Sydney Ullrich of Saskatoon who attends Centennial Collegiate.

The Canadian Association of Physicists offers prizes of $250, $150, and $100  for 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in each province.
Congratulations to these students. Certificates and prizes will be sent by mail to the winning students as soon as they are received from the Canadian Association of Physicists.
National winners will be announced on the CAP web site.
A copy of the 2013 exam is available here: The 2013 CAP Exam

Announcing the 2013 Physics Prize competitions.

See below for details of the National and Saskatchewan physics competitions.
Download a poster advertising both competitions.

2013 CAP High School Prize Examination

This is to announce the upcoming annual Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) High School Prize Examination for senior high school physics students. The exam is to be held on the morning of Tuesday April 9, 2013. This prize examination has been created by a Canada-wide national committee.

The examination contains multiple choice questions as well as three longer written questions The multiple choice section of the exam counts for about 40% of the mark while the long answer parts count for about 60%. A well-recognized International Syllabus is used for setting the exam: the International Baccalaureate Higher “Core” Curriculum (plus a little geometric optics). The emphasis will be on mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism, and elementary thermodynamics.

Students from across the country will write the same examination. The results of the Exam will be used by the National Physics Olympiad organization in their search for potential members of the Canadian team, which will go to the to 44th International Physics Olympiad which will be held in Copnghagen, Denmark between 7th to 15th July 2013. The top three students overall will receive automatic invitations to attend the 2013 Canadian National Physics Olympiad Finals.

2013 University of Saskatchewan High School Physics Competition

The Annual University of Saskatchewan High School Physics competition is to be held on the morning of Wednesday, May 8, 2013.  Prizes are scholarships that will be paid to students who enroll in any University of Saskatchewan first year Physics, Engineering Physics or Astronomy course. The Physics Competition has been created by professors at the University of Saskatchewan and will follow the Saskatchewan High School Physics Curriculum.  We expect that this test will be significantly more accessible to Saskatchewan High School Physics Students than the CAP High School Prize Exam.
 Old examination papers in PDF format:

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This web site is under development. We hope that over time it will become a valuable resource for Saskatchewan high school physics teachers and students. Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome. Please send them to Dr. Rob Pywell, E-mail: rob.pywell@usask.ca