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(2 points)1. Series 27. Year - 1. golden dam
How many bricks of 24-karat gold can you fit into the Orlík dam? What would be the pressure acting on a brick placed at the deepest point? The dimensions of a brick are 10 cm, 3 cm a 1 cm.
Karel wants to be rich.
(4 points)5. Series 26. Year - P. Prague is flooded!
In 2002 Prague experienced serious floodings. Try to estimate the amount of water that can fit into the Prague subway system. All the important parameters of the subway system like the train sizes, number of stations, length of the tunnels etc. can be found online.
Karel was drowning.
(2 points)4. Series 26. Year - 1. Who cares about Einstein?
Who is your favorite physicist except of Albert Einstein? What were her contributions to physics? Why do you consider her to be so brilliant? Why should she be famous? Write a short essay about her life and the discoveries she made.
Karel loves history.
(5 points)3. Series 26. Year - P. Conspiracy theory?
In this problem you are asked to think about the vapor trails that sometimes form behind an airplane. What are the physical parameters that determine the length of these lines? Estimate and/or find the values of these parameters and determine the range of all possible lengths. Use your results to dismiss the myth of chemtrails that says that these lines are formed by poisonous chemicals being released from the planes.
Michael declared a war on stupidity.
(8 points)2. Series 26. Year - E. it's fall again
Estimate the average surface area of a leaf of your choice. We are looking forward to see a thorough statistical analysis of your measurements! Use your result to estimate the fraction of energy obtained from the Sun that is used to make saccharides.
(2 points)1. Series 26. Year - 1. paper
Try to find out dimensions, mass and density of a regular A4 paper (one that you would use in a printer). Given these values estimate its average thickness.
Karel was eating a piece of paper.
(5 points)1. Series 26. Year - P. airship
What is the minimal wind speed necessary to blow away a paper lying on a flat table?
Karel does not like wind.
(4 points)6. Series 25. Year - P. x-ray
When you illuminate your fingers with a very intense light in order to see through them, you should notice that you can see individual vessels but the rest seems rather homogeneous. Explain why the vessels are visible but bones are not.
Michal was playing with LEDs.
(5 points)5. Series 25. Year - P. lightsaber
Design a lightsaber that looks and works in a similar way as the ones from Star Wars movies but using only knowledge and technology available to us.
Remembering old FYKOS camps.
(8 points)1. Series 25. Year - E. suffering of gummy bears
Find out experimentally at least three different physical properties of gummy bears candy. You should explore even how do these properties depend on the candy's color. Some possible properties you can measure are melting temperature, Young's modulus, maximal tension, absorbency (change in volume or mass after being in water for certain amount of time), density, conductivity, index of refraction, solubility, dependence of any of the preceding properties on temperature or anything else you can think of.
Karel