Composite Hubble Space Telescope Image. Meg Urry.
Composite Hubble Space Telescope Image. Meg Urry.
The electron density for nanowires of silicon. Ismail-Beigi .
The electron density for nanowires of silicon. Ismail-Beigi .
Atomic positions color coded with their relation to the wire. Ismail-Beigi.
Atomic positions color coded with their relation to the wire. Ismail-Beigi.
Composite image numerical solutions in two dielectric cavities. Stone.
Composite image numerical solutions in two dielectric cavities. Stone.

The Yale Monthly Physics Challenge

Mon, 02/27/2012

The Yale undergraduate student to submit the most elegant (as determined by the judges) and correct solution to the following problem will win an official Yale Physics Department mug with their initials sandblasted onto it.

Submit answers on paper to Sarah Compton in the business office or via email to: stephen.irons@yale.edu

The winner will be announced at the end of the month and the solutions posted in the bulletin board near the undergraduate labs in Sloane.

A printable version of this problem can be obtained by requesting it by email from the above address.

HAVE FUN!

P.S. You may work on it together, but only one mug will be awarded. Entries from outside Yale will not be considered.