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

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The discussion centers on the existence of magazines dedicated solely to publishing physics and mathematics problems and solutions. While there are no specific magazines focused exclusively on this niche, several journals include sections for problems, such as the American Mathematical Monthly and the College Mathematics Journal. The audience for such content primarily includes undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. The challenge lies in the scarcity of novel problems and the complexity of crafting both good questions and answers.

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  • Explore the American Mathematical Monthly for problem sections
  • Review the College Mathematics Journal for relevant puzzles
  • Investigate the Recreational Mathematics Magazine for engaging problems
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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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