First Round of Indonesian IPHO Preparation

Now, First Round of Indonesian Selection for International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) team is done in Jogjakarta, 30 best selected students from OSN (National Science Olympiad) are being gathered and joining this round for 1 month, from 22 October - 22 November, they are staying in Villa Taman Eden, in Astomulyo Street, Kaliurang, Jogjakarta. In fact, the hotel is just 5-6 km from Merapi, and if we go to 2nd floor, you can luckily see the beautiful view of Merapi (but until now, we just see one time, due to bad weather). But, in fact, there are only 22 students here, because 8 of them didn't join due to school's problems.

The topic learned here is about electromagnetism, because mechanics is already learned separately by each teachers, and also in OSK, OSP, and OSN.
First week, we learned about Gauss' law, Coulomb Law, and Dipole moments, but also the Mathematics in Physics, especially we learned about Divergence and Curl Vector. And, we discussed also about the fundamental theorem of both vectors. 4 quizzes and 1 weekly tests done covering these topics.

Second week, we learned about Electric Potential, Capacitor, and also discuss about DC circuit, also discussing about the compilation between Resistor and Capacitor Circuit, well, no quiz added, but we've done lots of problems in that chapters, and we also know about a new method in electrical, THE METHOD OF IMAGE... But, there's always a weekly test, and it has been the hardest one (i hope another test will not be this)

Third week, we learned about Magnetism, especially about Magnetic Force, and Source of Magnetic Field, but, due to the collided schedule, we unluckily learned about Maxwell's equation that seems to be "sharp" enough for us. (even if us, what about another high school student?). And then, we didn't take any sudden quiz also, but we already know, that Magnetic Field has almost the same concept with Electric Field, but the difference is there's NO MAGNETIC MONOPOLE (even theoretically, it will be), but if there is, all physics law will change. SUCK!!!. But the theory and formula is almost same.

Now, we're entering the fourth week, the last week, the hardest week, because we'll be learning Electromagnetic Induction, Maxwell's Equation, and Inductance. And, we've just taken a sudden quiz about Inductance.

We're planning to make two shirts for the team (now, we're still working on the design)
If you want to know the candidate member, i'll show you their profile in next post.

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