Physics Puzzler: The Puzzle Corner

This edition’s crossword puzzle celebrates “Connecting Worlds,” the theme of the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). SPS communications specialist Elizabeth Hook constructed this delightful brainteaser.

Fall Contest Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Diedrich Schmidt, of North Carolina A&T State University, for being the first respondent to correctly solve last fall’s moon-earth orbit puzzle.

Prizes

For each physics puzzle, the submitter of the first correct answer, and a second chosen at random from all correct answers will be awarded a $25 gift card for a book vendor of the winner’s choice, and the winners’ names will appear in the next issue of Radiations. Please submit your answers to the physics puzzles by surface mail to ΣΠΣ Puzzle Corner, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, or by email to sps [at] aip.org.

Deadline

15 September 2013

Answers

Answers will appear at www.sigmapisigma.org/radiations/puzzlecorner/ in late September.

Call for Puzzles

We welcome any interesting puzzles you may have to share with your fellow alumni. As a token of our appreciation, will send a $25 gift card to the submitter of each original puzzle we accept. Please submit your puzzles to Sigma Pi Sigma Puzzle Corner, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, or by email to sps [at] aip.org.