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NTU PHYSICS CHALLENGE 2024

NTU Physics Challenge 2024 took place on 22 July 2024 with more than 200 participants from secondary schools, junior colleges, and other tertiary schools around Singapore. Some information on last year's schedule and lectures are available below. See Winner for the list of past year book prize and award winners.

Past Schedule

22 July 2024
Time Activity
9:30am — 11:30am Physics Test
11:30am — 12:30pm Lunch
1:00pm — 1:45pm Lecture 1
1:45 — 2:00pm Break
2:00pm — 2:45pm Lecture 2
3:00pm — 4:00pm Award Ceremony (Book Prizes and GYSS Candidacy Prizes!)

Past Lectures

Click on the talk titles for video recordings

Lecture 1: "So You Think You Know Mechanics?" - Elbert Chia
A pedagogical lecture on A-level physics, where we will go over some interesting questions that may be challenging and counterintuitive.

Lecture 2:

  1. Welcome to Quantum Reality and the Physics of Fantasy - Gu Mile
  2. The Physics of Human Societies - Cheong Siew Ann
  3. The Physics in "Interstellar" - Leek Meng Lee

A series of mini-lectures by faculties from NTU physics. They shared some interesting results from their research and laboratory, and showed why physics is such an interesting and fundamentally important subject.

Congratulations to the winners of 2024 NTU Physics Challenge!

The following students were awarded candidacy in the 2025 Global Young Scientist Summit.

1 (Male) Ng Le Xi NUS High School
2 (Male) Chen Kay Den Hwa Chong Institution
3 (Male) Siddhaarth Dharani NUS High School
4 (Female) Lin Lejing Fanny River Valley High School
5 (Female) Joanne Tan Kai Xin Hwa Chong Institution

Please click here for the full list of 2024 medalists and book prize winners.