Everything you need to know about the F=MA competition
F=MA exam is an annual physics exam. The American Association of Physics teachers organizes the exam. It recruits, selects and trains teams every year to complete in the IPhO. The F=MA competition serves as an entrance examination each year with about six thousand participants. About the top four hundred highest-scoring students will advance to the USAPhO examination which is then used as a basis for choosing twenty members for the IPhO. At the AMC level, there is no physics competition and this means that the F=MA competition corresponds to the AIME. In short, it is very competitive. What does the F=MA contest cover? It consists of twenty-five multiple-choice questions that are supposed to be solved in seventy-five minutes, focusing on classical algebra-based mechanics. These questions deal with statics, kinematics, momentum and energy, Newton’s laws, orbital mechanics, oscillations, elementary data analysis and fluids. During your F=MA exam prep , it is important to unde...