AAPT · High-school physics contestAAPT · 高中物理竞赛
The AAPT Physics Bowl
物理碗（AAPT Physics Bowl）
Forty multiple-choice questions in forty-five minutes, taken each spring through the student's school, in two divisions: one for a first physics course, one for a second course or anyone who wants a challenge.
每年春季通过学生所在学校参加：45 分钟、40 道选择题，分两个组别：一组面向第一年学物理的学生，另一组面向第二年及以上或想挑战自己的学生。
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past questions in the bank, 15 papers 2010–2025, with answer keys道真题收入题库，15 套试卷（2010–2025），附答案
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questions worked in full in the interactive lab, free道题在互动练习中免费完整讲解
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topics, from units to modern physics个专题，从单位换算到近代物理
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solution books with every question worked本题解书，每道题都有完整解答
Contest facts on this site are taken from the archived 2013, 2024 and 2025 papers and from the AAPT pages as captured in May 2026. Dates, regions and rules change from year to year; for the current contest go to aapt.org.
本站的赛事信息取自已存档的 2013、2024、2025 年试卷，以及 2026 年 5 月抓取的 AAPT 页面。日期、赛区与规则逐年都可能调整，当年的比赛请以 aapt.org 为准。
What it is比赛是什么
- Organiser主办方
- American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), to recognise outstanding high-school physics students and their teachers美国物理教师协会（AAPT），用来表彰优秀的高中物理学生及其老师
- Format形式
- One paper of 50 multiple-choice questions, five options each; every student answers 40 of them in 45 minutes一份 50 道选择题的试卷，每题五个选项；每位学生在 45 分钟内只答其中 40 道
- Division 1Division 1
- Students taking physics for the first time, even if that first course is AP Physics; they answer Q1–40第一次学物理的学生（即使第一门课就是 AP 物理）；作答第 1–40 题
- Division 2Division 2
- Students in a second (or later) physics course, or anyone wanting a challenge; they answer Q11–50正在上第二门（或更多）物理课的学生，或任何想挑战自己的学生；作答第 11–50 题
- Scoring计分
- One point per correct answer, no deduction for a wrong one; ties are broken by comparing answers from the end of the test forward答对一题得一分，答错不扣分；同分时从试卷最后一题往前比较
- Team score团体分
- The sum of a school's five highest student scores in each division; a school may enter either or both divisions每个组别中学校最高的五名学生分数之和；学校可以参加一个或两个组别
- Regions赛区
- The 2024 and 2025 papers: two divisions, each with nineteen regions (the 2013 paper listed fourteen)2024、2025 年试卷：两个组别，各有十九个赛区（2013 年试卷为十四个）
- When时间
- A window in spring: 19 March – 4 April in 2025; 18 March – 3 April in 2026每年春季的一个时间窗口：2025 年为 3 月 19 日至 4 月 4 日；2026 年为 3 月 18 日至 4 月 3 日
- Conventions考场约定
- g = 10.0 m/s² for all questions; a hand-held calculator with memory cleared; only the formulas and constants provided所有题目取 g = 10.0 m/s²；可用手持计算器（清空存储）；只能用试卷提供的公式和常数
Why it matters for US-bound students为什么对准备去美国读书的学生有用
Physics Bowl is the physics teachers' own national contest in the United States, and its syllabus is the first-year and AP physics syllabus: kinematics and forces, energy and momentum, rotation, waves, circuits and fields, thermodynamics, optics and a little modern physics. A student who can work these questions at one a minute has a clear, comparable signal of mastery on the same benchmark as US classmates.
Physics Bowl 是美国物理教师协会自己办的全国性比赛，考查范围就是第一年物理和 AP 物理：运动学与力、能量与动量、转动、波动、电路与场、热学、光学和少量近代物理。能以一分钟一道的速度做对这些题，就是在与美国同龄人相同的标尺上，清楚地证明了自己的物理功底。
It is also low-risk practice for harder papers. The questions are short, the paper is published afterwards with the answers, and there is no penalty for guessing, so it trains the speed, elimination and estimation habits that matter again in AP Physics and in the F = ma exam.
它也是冲击更难比赛之前风险很低的练习。题目短小，考后试卷与答案都会公布，答错不扣分，所以它训练的速度、排除法和估算习惯，到 AP 物理和 F = ma 考试时还会用到。
