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

1. Nuclear Mousetraps
2. Pop-Pop Away: UC Berkeley, Shantanu Kadam & Shirley Yu
3. Dirty Racing
4. Hydraulic Jump White Hole: UC Berkeley, Bingxu Meng & Vivian Gao
5. Distant Thunder
6. The Finger of Death
7. Vegetable Electricity
8. Heavy Parachute
9. Solar Retraction Motor
10. Rolling Pasta
11. The Spinning Washer: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Bingxu Meng
12. Metallic Forest: UW Seattle, Liam Bonds (recording)
13. Branching Light
14. Ice Clock: UC Berkeley, Shantanu Kadam & Vivian Gao (recording)
15. Burning Bottle Cutter
16. Graphite Lamp: UW Seattle, Adit Jain & Gonzalo Ferrandez
17. Quantum Drop Analogy: UC Berkeley, Miguel Ceja & Siddhant Mal (recording)

2019 USPT

1. Cumulative Cannon: UC Berkeley, Brandon Abrego & Erika Hathaway
2. Precious Energy
3. Paper Tube
4. Electrostatic Copier
5. Whirlpool in a Bottle: UC Berkeley, Erika Hathaway & Shantanu Kadam
6. Planetary Clock
7. Wavy Pages
8. Rippled Water Columns
9. Optical Compass: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Shantanu Kadam
10. Hail
11. Flat Fog
12. Resonating Glasses: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mal & Erika Hathaway
13. Pickle Night Light: UC Berkeley, Siddhant Mehrotra & Miguel Ceja
14. Jumping Bean
15. Wobbly Vortex Rings
16. Little Soldiers
17. Quantum Gram