You don’t need to be a physics major to enjoy this. You just need to reframe how you consume it.
The "Rainy Day" Ritual:
The "Social" Angle: Turn it into a party game. I have a group chat where we share the hardest "Thermodynamics" problem of the week. First one to solve it gets out of buying the next round of drinks. It turns a bar night into intellectual fencing. russian physics olympiad problems pdf hot
The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) holds its own Olympiads. These are notorious for being significantly harder than the standard national olympiads. You don’t need to be a physics major to enjoy this
Many "hot" PDF collections of Russian problems feature a unique genre: Estimation Problems. These force you to make reasonable assumptions about the world. For example: The "Social" Angle: Turn it into a party game
"Estimate the height a fountain can reach if a child accidentally shoots a hole in a high-pressure water pipe."
There is no single correct answer in the back of the book. There is only a correct range and a correct methodology. This builds intuition, which is the ultimate skill in physics.