Is there anything such as "Magazine of Physics problems"?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the existence of magazines or journals focused specifically on publishing interesting physics and mathematics problems and their solutions. Participants explore the potential audience and the feasibility of such publications.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant questions the target audience for such a magazine, suggesting it could be undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral students.
  • Another participant expresses skepticism about the feasibility of a magazine dedicated solely to problems, citing the difficulty in generating novel problems and good answers.
  • A participant lists several existing journals and magazines that include problems or puzzles, noting that some may have sections dedicated to them, while others may focus entirely on such content.
  • Links to various journals and resources are provided, indicating that while dedicated magazines may not exist, there are publications that feature problems.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the existence of a magazine solely focused on physics problems. There are differing opinions on the feasibility and audience for such a publication.

Contextual Notes

Participants express uncertainty regarding the novelty of problems and the broadness of the audience, which may affect the viability of a dedicated magazine.

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The question is on the title. I was just thinking if exist some magazine on physics and maths whose only focus is to publish interesting problems and solutions?
 
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Interesting to whom?
 
Vanadium 50 said:
Interesting to whom?
Undergraduate students? Maybe master and doctoral students too.
 
There are not that many novel problems. Jearl Walker's Xeroxed spiral bound version of "The Flying Circus of Physics" circulated when I was in Grad School. Good questions are as difficult to compound as good answers.
 
LCSphysicist said:
Undergraduate students? Maybe master and doctoral students too.
That's a pretty broad audience. I can't see how that would work even in theory.
 
From Googling...
(in no particular order... you'll have to judge the quality for yourself)

Some might have some columns or sections in each issue devoted to problems or puzzles.
Some might be entirely problems or puzzles.
While there are certainly books with problems or puzzles, this list only covers journals.

American Mathematical Monthly https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly
College Mathematics Journal https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/college-mathematics-journal/the-college-mathematics-journal
Recreational Mathematics Magazine https://sciendo.com/journal/RMM
The Games and Puzzles Journal https://www.mayhematics.com/j/j.htm

https://www.aapt.org/Publications/AJP/Readers/back_of_the_envelope.cfm (these were collected from various issues of the American Journal of Physics... they did not appear in the journal in the format given in this set of pdfs.. here is an example from the journal: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.4755909?journalCode=ajp )

More places to look: https://recreationalphysics.com/physics-questions/
 
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