ART OF PHYSICS COMPETITION
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The Canadian Association of Physicists launched the first Art of
Physics Competition at their 1992 Annual Congress in Windsor, Ontario.
The aim of the competition is to stimulate interest, especially among
non-scientists, in some of the captivating imagery associated with physics.
The challenge is to capture photographically a beautiful or unusual physics
phenomenon and explain it in less than 200 words in terms that everyone can
understand.
Click here
for details on how to participate in this year's competition.
All entrants of the competition also have the
chance to have their entries included in an Art of Physics exhibition.
All the entries which were received
are kept on file and may appear at a future date as a cover for Physics
in Canada.
Winners of all the competitions held since 1993 are shown below.
Click on the image to see a full-size image along with the accompanying
explanation (note: the explanation is reproduced in the language of submission).
2017 Winners -- (Click here to see Honourable Mentions)
Supported Through Tension |
The Future of Optics |
L'effet Leidenfrost |
The Rainbow Phenomenon: Beyond The White |
La Gouttelette |
Larmes Photoélastiques |
Super Lune Réfractée |
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1st Prize High School Individual Category |
2nd Prize High School Individual Category |
1st Prize High School Class Category |
2nd Prize High School Class Category |
3rd Prize High School Class Category |
1st Prize Open Category |
2nd Prize Open Category |
The 2016 competition was deferred. All eligible entries received were considered for the 2017 competition.
2015 Winners -- (Click here to see Honourable Mentions)
Gas, Water, and Light |
Spaces and Dimensions |
Spring Melt Icicles |
Upside down, smaller and real image in the same scene |
Tout est dans le centre de la masse |
Aile de drosophile |
Que la lumière s' Watt |
Reflection in Glass |
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1st Prize High School Individual Category |
2nd Prize High School Individual Category |
3rd Prize High School Individual Category |
1st Prize High School Class Category |
2nd Prize High School Class Category |
1st Prize Open Category |
1st Prize 2015 International Year of Light |
2nd Prize 2015 International Year of Light |
2014 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
The Displacement Log |
Reflection of the Sun |
Magnetic Fields |
A Myopic Perspective of the Sunrise |
Vibrating Speaker Illusion |
Biréfringence |
Arctic Ice Crystals over Yellowknife |
Aurore boréale |
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1st Place High School Individual Category |
2nd Place High School Individual Category |
3rd Place High School Individual Category |
1st Place High School Class Category |
2nd Place High School Class Category |
1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
2013 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Waterbending |
Laser Diffractions |
Spoon and Milk |
Ready, Set, Glow |
Miscibilité et masse volumique |
Tension superficielle |
Ice Contours |
Pixels |
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1st Place High School Individual Category |
2nd Place High School Individual Category |
3rd Place High School Individual Category |
1st Place High School Class Category |
2nd Place High School Class Category |
1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
2012 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Bonds in Focus |
Star light, star bright, are you a fan of Coherent Light? |
Ferrofluid |
Reflecting Infinity |
Crayon Energy |
The Diverging Glass |
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1st Place High School Individual Category |
2nd Place High School Individual Category |
3rd Place High School Individual Category |
1st Place High School Class Category |
2nd Place High School Class Category |
3rd Place High School Class Category |
2011 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Laser Diffraction |
Resonance |
Rainbow Flames |
La colonne d'eau |
Interférence sur un CD |
Photons sucrés |
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1st Place High School Class Category |
1st Place High School Individual Category |
2nd Place High School Individual Category |
1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
2010 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Magnetic Tree |
Reverberating Polysaccharide |
Interference of Water Waves |
Magnificent Sun and Moon |
Infrared Insanity |
Rustic Sunrise |
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1st Place High School Class Category |
2nd Place High School Class Category |
3rd Place High School Class Category |
1st Place High School Individual Category |
2nd Place High School Individual Category |
3rd Place High School Individual Category |
2009 Winners -- (No Honourable Mentions)
Quantified Loss |
Huge Mountains Like Tiny Bubbles |
"Horizontal" Icicles |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
2007-08 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
The Unfolding and Enfolding Universe |
A Flight Inspired by Gravity |
Sunset in a Bubble Film? |
Colourful Maze! |
The Bending of an Electron Beam |
Strumming in 'E' |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
3rd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Class Category |
2006 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Standing Water |
ZAP ! |
Natural Fireworks |
Holographic Laser Tornado |
Amber Amperage |
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1st Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
3rd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Class Category |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Class Category |
2004-05 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Flight in a Viscous Fluid |
Polarisation croisée |
Inverted Image - Converging Lens |
Tie-Dye TV |
Fg = Ma |
Splash! |
Ray Play |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Class Project |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Class Project |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
3rd Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
2003 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Hand through flat soap bubble |
Surface Interface Dynamics: Methyl Benzene & Silicon Dioxide |
Vortex In A Sink |
Kaleidoscopic Bubbles |
Thin - Film Effect |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Individual |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Class Project |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP Class Project |
2002 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Birefringence & Cameraless Photography |
Crystallization of Milk Fats |
The Frosted Forest |
Soap Bubble |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP |
1st Place High School/CEGEP Class Project |
2001 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Pendulum Trajectory |
The Van der Graaff Kid |
Vortices in a Layered Fluid |
Walking on Water |
Reflection of Trees Off Water |
La Divergence |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP |
2nd Place High School/CEGEP |
3rd Place High School/CEGEP |
2000 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Breaking Wave Structure |
Hole Formation in Supported Bilayer Polymer Films |
Freely-Standing Polymer Trilayer Films: DIC Image of Lateral Morphology |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
1996 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Star Patterns |
"Fullerene Forest" in Northern Winter |
Icicle Arrays |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
1994 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Vertigo |
Transmission Electron Microscopy of a Metal-matrix Composite |
Electron Tree |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
1993 Winners -- (Honourable Mentions)
Convection pattern in an annular "soap" film |
Solar Vision |
Parabolic Arcs |
Stuck |
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1st Place Open Category |
2nd Place Open Category |
3rd Place Open Category |
1st Place High School/CEGEP |
Winners and honourable mentions from these Art of Physics
competitions became part of a travelling exhibition. You can view the
honourable mentions for each year by selecting the honourable mention link beside each year's header.
You can also get information on how you can book the Art of Physics travelling
exhibition for showing at your institution.