Problem submission for the IYPT

By submitting this form I certify that the wording of the suggested problem is prepared by myself. I agree to transfer the copyright of all submitted material to the IYPT for the case the submitted problem shall be selected and used by the IYPT in the year of submission or any of subsequent three years. I also agree that the formulation of the problem might be adjusted and supplemented in any way, and any part of this submission might be used separately from others.

Author's name

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Author's email

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Country of the contributor

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Title of the problem

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Phrasing of the problem

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Origins of the problem (full citations of papers or webpages, details of own observations or ideas, etc.)

Please indicate the background of your proposal. We will be checking various aspects of the problem and will need to trace it back to the original source. A "source" may mean a published paper, a webpage, a personal observation or test, a theoretical consideration, etc.

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Comments

Any other comments about the proposal, in particulas about the physical background and relevance of the proposal and about the expected contribution of students

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Figures

If you have illustrations to submit with your proposal, please upload them somewhere and copy the resulting link below. You may equally copy links to images on the web, or upload the figure to your personal website. This form does not support direct upload of graphics.

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Checkbox: is the problem new at the IYPT?

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I have checked archive.iypt.org/problems and confirm that the proposal has never been an IYPT problem before
There was a similar IYPT problem in the past, but I endorse the new proposal as interesting and important
I am not sure whether a similar problem has been at the IYPT in the past

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Checkbox: is the problem feasible for IYPT participants?

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Experiments are clearly feasible, effects are reachable, no extraordinary equipment needed, I did tests on my own (or feel confident that any experiment will run well)
I trust literature or information from my colleagues that the problem is apparently feasible at the IYPT level
I am not sure how feasible is the problem from the IYPT perspective

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Is this a submission that should be counted for an IMO?

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