{"id":5220,"date":"2022-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2022\/01\/18\/kevin-kim-and-lucien-tsai-both-ao24-win-gold-in-the-university-physics-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:00:00","slug":"kevin-kim-and-lucien-tsai-both-ao24-win-gold-in-the-university-physics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/2022\/01\/18\/kevin-kim-and-lucien-tsai-both-ao24-win-gold-in-the-university-physics-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Kim and Lucien Tsai (both \u201924) Win Gold in The University Physics Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"picture-126.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/picture-126.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for news: Kevin Kim and Lucien Tsai (both \u201924) Win Gold in The University Physics Competition\" data-pic=\"picture-126.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Consider the impact of an asteroid in the ocean, 1,000 km from a coastal city. &nbsp;What is the minimum mass the asteroid would require in order to cause substantial damage to this city?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>You have 48 hours. Ready? <strong>Go!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sophomores Kevin Kim and Lucien Tsai took on this challenge last November as part of <a>The University Physics Competition<\/a>, which is an international contest for undergraduate students. Teams register ahead of the competition weekend, select one of two questions, and spend up to 48 hours writing a formal paper describing their analysis. During the competition, &ldquo;teams may use books, journals, computers, the Internet, programs that they write, or any other nonliving resources, but they may not consult with any people outside of their team.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Entries submitted within the 48-hour window are judged and ranked, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uphysicsc.com\/2021contest.html\">with roughly the top 2% awarded gold medals<\/a>. Impressive work, gold-medal-winners Kevin and Lucien. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the impact of an asteroid in the ocean, 1,000 km from a coastal city. &nbsp;What is the minimum mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}