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After 48 hours of analyzing and writing, three UCF physics<\/a> majors showed the importance of research by winning the bronze medal in their participation of the fifth annual University Physics Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From left: Brandon Blue, Chris Tiller, and Dylan Bruce.<\/p><\/div>\n

The team of Brandon Blue, Chris Tiller, and Dylan Bruce performed calculations on the orbital stability of planets and determined their conclusion based on a background literature search.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all quite excited to finally hear the news, almost regardless of the outcome, and the bronze medal ranking made it all the better,\u201d Blue said.<\/p>\n

The University Physics Competition is an international contest for undergraduate students that takes place every November.\u00a0 Teams of three from around the world are selected to compete and are able to\u00a0work from their respective\u00a0colleges or universities. A pair of physics-related questions are released on the competition\u2019s website at a particular time at the start of the weekend. \u00a0The teams are given 48 hours to consider the questions, do research or experiments and then write a 10-page paper.<\/p>\n

This year, the two problems consisted of analyzing water fountain spray distribution and the orbital stability of planets in a binary star system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe competition was held just around Thanksgiving, when UCF slows down significantly, so the three of us holed up in the library, from around opening to closing,\u201d Blue said. \u201cWe shared our initial thoughts and did some reading until we were comfortable with our approach to the problem and settled into our respective jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue said that over 100 groups participated in the competition this year, so his team didn\u2019t receive any results for two months as the judges deliberated on the quality of each paper. When the judges finally announced their decisions, Blue discovered his team was the only one out of a dozen teams from Florida to win a medal.<\/p>\n

With this achievement, Blue also said that he hopes that other students will take this opportunity to collaborate in physics outside of the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like a daunting task at first; submitting a paper you and two of your friends wrote over a weekend to be judged on a global scale, but the experience is well worth it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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