Physics Olympiad Resources & Club Roadmap

Weekly meetings, slides, and problem sets built around the actual F=ma topic distribution. Click any week to open the slides in the full-screen viewer. Follow the official physics club account here for more details!

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   Week 1 · Kinematics

   Position, velocity, acceleration

   1D & 2D motion, graphs, relative velocity, and multi-step kinematics problems.

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   Week 2 · Dynamics

   Forces & Newton’s laws

   Free-body diagrams, tension, friction, inclined planes, and multi-mass setups.

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   Week 3 · Energy & Work

   Work–energy & power

   Potential & kinetic energy, work, power, and using energy to shortcut hard dynamics.

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   Week 4 · Collisions

   Momentum, impulse, and impact

   Elastic vs inelastic collisions, center-of-mass frame, and ballistic-style questions.

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   Week 5 · Systems of Masses

   Connected objects & constraints

   Atwood machines, pulleys, multi-block systems, and constraint equations.

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   Week 6 · Rigid bodies & rotation

   Torque and rotational dynamics

   Torque, rotational inertia, rolling without slipping, and rotation–translation mixes.

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   Week 7 · Oscillatory motion

   Springs & small-angle motion

   Simple harmonic motion, springs in series/parallel, and small-angle pendulum problems.

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   Week 8 · Gravity

   Inverse-square law & orbits

   Newtonian gravity, orbital energy, escape speed, and near-surface approximations.

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   Week 9 · Fluids

   Pressure & buoyancy

   Hydrostatics, Archimedes, forces on submerged surfaces, and F=ma-style fluid puzzles.

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    Week 10 · Mixed review & “Other”

    Full mock F=ma

    Mixed-topic problems, less-common edge cases, and timed mock exams with debrief.