Past USPTs: Solution Database
USPT participants put time and thought into creating exciting and insightful understandings of physical phenomena. Whether you’re looking for examples of solutions or interested in how other teams solved a specific problem, we’re glad you’re here!
You can find international solutions and problems for previous years at https://iptnet.info.
2020 USPT
- Nuclear Mousetraps
- Pop-Pop Away: UC Berkeley, Shantanu Kadam & Shirley Yu
- Dirty Racing
- Hydraulic Jump White Hole: UC Berkeley, Bingxu Meng & Vivian Gao
- Distant Thunder
- The Finger of Death
- Vegetable Electricity
- Heavy Parachute
- Solar Retraction Motor
- Rolling Pasta
- The Spinning Washer: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Bingxu Meng
- Metallic Forest: UW Seattle, Liam Bonds (recording)
- Branching Light
- Ice Clock: UC Berkeley, Shantanu Kadam & Vivian Gao (recording)
- Burning Bottle Cutter
- Graphite Lamp: UW Seattle, Adit Jain & Gonzalo Ferrandez
- Quantum Drop Analogy: UC Berkeley, Miguel Ceja & Siddhant Mal (recording)
2019 USPT
- Cumulative Cannon: UC Berkeley, Brandon Abrego & Erika Hathaway
- Precious Energy
- Paper Tube
- Electrostatic Copier
- Whirlpool in a Bottle: UC Berkeley, Erika Hathaway & Shantanu Kadam
- Planetary Clock
- Wavy Pages
- Rippled Water Columns
- Optical Compass: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Shantanu Kadam
- Hail
- Flat Fog
- Resonating Glasses: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Erika Hathaway
- Pickle Night Light: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mehrotra & Miguel Ceja
- Jumping Bean
- Wobbly Vortex Rings
- Little Soldiers
- Quantum Gram