School stu­dents of grades 8–11 from Rus­sia and of equi­val­ent grades from all over the world are invited to participate.

Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the com­pet­i­tion is free. All school stu­dents can take part in the qual­i­fy­ing round and the win­ners of it are invited to the final round. Win­ners of the pre­vi­ous Olympi­ad (with dip­lo­mas of any degree) are also invited dir­ectly to the finals.

Olympiad’s organ­izers

The Olympi­ad 2024/25 is organ­ized by

Saint Peters­burg Elec­tro­tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity «LETI»

State Mar­ine Tech­nic­al University

Balt­ic State Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity ‘Voen­meh’ named after D. F. Ustinov

Con­tact us

You can send your ques­tions by e‑mail olimp.​phys@​formulo.​org.

Chronology of events

Dear par­ti­cipants!

We are pub­lish­ing an exten­ded pro­tocol, includ­ing the res­ults of school­chil­dren who par­ti­cip­ated in the final stage out­side the com­pet­i­tion. If you took part in the Olympi­ad, but your res­ult is miss­ing, please inform the organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee imme­di­ately by e‑mail, indic­at­ing your full name, class, city and par­ti­cipant code.

• Pro­tocol of the final stage 

We also attach a table of points for dif­fer­ent degrees of diplomas:

Thank you for par­ti­cip­at­ing! The Olympi­ad is over!

Pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the final stage have become avail­able in per­son­al accounts. In the near future, we plan to pub­lish the full pro­tocol of the final stage.

• Rus­si­an
• Eng­lish

No later than April 19 inclus­ive, you can file an appeal (in your per­son­al account). Decisions on dip­lo­mas will be made after appeals are processed.

You can request your work from the jury by email solv.​phys@​formulo.​org until April 18, 2025 inclus­ive (requests via the organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee’s email will not be con­sidered). In the sub­ject line, write: «Request for work»; in the email itself, you must indic­ate the city of par­ti­cip­a­tion, class, and par­ti­cipant code. Without this inform­a­tion, the work will not be sent.

Please note that the work will be sent to you with­in 24 hours from the moment of the request.

Dear par­ti­cipants!
The organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee agreed on the date of the final (in-per­son) round.

The Phys­ics Olympi­ad will be held on March 16, 2025.

Inform­a­tion about ven­ues and regis­tra­tion will be avail­able later.

Please stay tuned for updates.

Dear par­ti­cipants!

Indi­vidu­al res­ults are avail­able in per­son­al accounts of our Inform­a­tion sys­tem. The par­ti­cipants who reached the threshold score will be invited to the final round.

And in the pro­tocol of the qual­i­fy­ing round:

• Pro­tocol of the qual­i­fy­ing round 

If you do not see your­self in the pro­tocol, this means that you have not yet filled out the neces­sary per­son­al data in your per­son­al account.
The points for passing to the final round by class are as follows:

Fol­low the updates on the web­site. Inform­a­tion about the date and ven­ues will appear in 2025.

Organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee address: olimp.​phys@​formulo.​org.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the final­ists and see you at the final stage!

Dear par­ti­cipants, the pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing stage have been pub­lished. The res­ults can be viewed in your per­son­al account.

Solu­tions to the tasks of the qual­i­fy­ing stage:

• Rus­si­an
• Eng­lish

in case of tech­nic­al errors or ques­tions about the eval­u­ation cri­ter­ia, please send an email isys@​formulo.​org . Requests are accep­ted until Decem­ber 28, 2024. 

The sub­ject of the let­ter is «Appeal.Physics».

In the text, you must spe­cify the par­ti­cipant’s full name, class, and explain what you dis­agree with.

Please note that the task for which you are appeal­ing is being rechecked, not the entire work.

The qual­i­fy­ing round of the Olympi­ad is over!

The res­ults of the qual­i­fy­ing round of the Olympi­ad will be pub­lished on the web­site no later than Decem­ber 31, 2024.

Here is the qual­i­fy­ing (remote) round of the competition.

We will be happy if your friends who like phys­ics also par­ti­cip­ate. How­ever, every assign­ment should be done indi­vidu­ally; oth­er­wise, your sub­mis­sion will not be considered.

Prob­lems

The qual­i­fy­ing round is tra­di­tion­ally held for stu­dents in grades 8–11 in a test format: for each task, you only need to enter the answer, which is either a num­ber or a let­ter. In some tasks, the answer may be a for­mula or the answer «no solu­tion».

• Rus­si­an
• Eng­lish

How to sub­mit solutions

To par­ti­cip­ate in the «For­mula of Unity» / «Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2024/25 phys­ics olympi­ad, it is neces­sary to sub­mit solu­tion by the dead­line of 23:59:59 UTC on Decem­ber 7, 2024 (which is 02:59:59 Moscow time on Decem­ber 8). Please register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem and sub­mit your solu­tions through the per­son­al account. Import­ant: if you already have an account, there is no need to cre­ate a new one.

Be sure to read the par­ti­cip­a­tion instructions.
The form for sub­mit­ting answers will be open from Novem­ber 18.

• Inform­a­tion system 
• Par­ti­cip­a­tion Instructions 

We do not accept qual­i­fy­ing round works in any way oth­er than through upload­ing with­in the inform­a­tion system.

Ques­tions?

All ques­tions to the Organ­iz­ing Com­mit­tee about the prob­lem con­di­tions and the pro­ced­ure for con­duct­ing the Olympi­ad can be asked by email olimp@​formulo.​org or +7(981)-750–19-21 Alex­an­dra (write in What­s­app or Telegram).

Ques­tions about the oper­a­tion of the inform­a­tion sys­tem can be asked by email isys@​formulo.​org.

Dear par­ti­cipants!
Please read the rules of the Olympi­ad to avoid errors in writ­ing your answers:

1. The first round of the Olympi­ad is in absen­tia and the answers are checked auto­mat­ic­ally, that is, a spe­cial pro­gram com­pares your answer with the cor­rect one, included in the pro­gram by the organ­izers. There­fore, to pre­vent pos­sible mis­un­der­stand­ings, care­fully read the instruc­tions and act in accord­ance with them.
All appeals for fail­ure to com­ply with the rules of the instruc­tions will not be considered.
2. All prob­lems provide an answer in the form of a num­ber or sev­er­al num­bers, for each of which a cor­res­pond­ing field is provided. Be care­ful and do not con­fuse the answer fields. If you insert the cor­rect answers in the wrong fields, the pro­gram will not accept them.
3. Spe­cify answers only as a decim­al frac­tion: XX,XXX… Use a comma (,) as a separator.
4. It is not neces­sary (pro­hib­ited) to insert units of meas­ure­ment, for­mu­las or any words in the answer.
5. If the prob­lem state­ment does not spe­cify the units to use for the answer, use SI units: meters, kilo­grams, seconds, etc.
6. Since all meas­ure­ments and cal­cu­la­tions in phys­ics are approx­im­ate, all answers must be giv­en with the cor­rect num­ber of sig­ni­fic­ant digits. For the rules of approx­im­ate cal­cu­la­tions, see the file «Rules of approx­im­ate cal­cu­la­tions». If there are zer­os after the required num­ber of sig­ni­fic­ant digits in an integer, this will not be con­sidered an error. Writ­ing the num­ber 34,0 (3 sig­ni­fic­ant digits) as 34 will be con­sidered an error.
7. You have 3 weeks to provide answers. Works sent later will not be considered.

Dear par­ti­cipants!

The start of the qual­i­fy­ing round is just around the corner.

Please do not worry that there are no cur­rent Olympi­ads in the «Olympi­ads» sec­tion of your per­son­al account.

We do not have pre­lim­in­ary regis­tra­tion for the Olympiad.

The Olympi­ad itself, the con­di­tions and the form for sub­mit­ting answers will be avail­able in your per­son­al account start­ing from Novem­ber 16 (the day the Olympi­ad starts).

The Olympi­ad is con­duc­ted in two stages, the first of which (the qual­i­fy­ing round) takes place in the autumn, and the second (the final round) takes place in February-March.

The qual­i­fy­ing round is con­duc­ted in an online format using remote edu­ca­tion­al technologies.
Dates for the online qual­i­fy­ing rounds:
Math­em­at­ics: 20.10.24 — 10.11.24
Phys­ics: 16.11.24 — 07.12.24
Eng­lish: 20.10.24 — 13.11.24

The final round is (usu­ally) held in per­son at region­al venues.
To par­ti­cip­ate, you need to register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem (re-regis­tra­tion is not neces­sary). On the day the Olympi­ad begins (20.10.24), all the neces­sary inform­a­tion will be sent to your email.

Win­ners of the Olympi­ad receive a spe­cial vouch­er for edu­ca­tion­al camps «For­mula of Unity».

You can also find all inform­a­tion about the Olympi­ad on the offi­cial page at the portal olimpi​ada​.ru.

For a more suc­cess­ful par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Olympi­ad, we recom­mend solv­ing prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years and study­ing the recom­men­ded lit­er­at­ure. You can also pur­chase col­lec­tions of Olympi­ad prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years in print.