Found problems: 2
2013 IPhOO, 8
[asy]size(8cm);
real w = 2.718; // width of block
real W = 13.37; // width of the floor
real h = 1.414; // height of block
real H = 7; // height of block + string
real t = 60; // measure of theta
pair apex = (w/2, H); // point where the strings meet
path block = (0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(0,h)--cycle; // construct the block
draw(shift(-W/2,0)*block); // draws white block
path arrow = (w,h/2)--(w+W/8,h/2); // path of the arrow
draw(shift(-W/2,0)*arrow, EndArrow); // draw the arrow
picture pendulum; // making a pendulum...
draw(pendulum, block); // block
fill(pendulum, block, grey); // shades block
draw(pendulum, (w/2,h)--apex); // adds in string
add(pendulum); // adds in block + string
add(rotate(t, apex) * pendulum); // adds in rotated block + string
dot("$\theta$", apex, dir(-90+t/2)*3.14); // marks the apex and labels it with theta
draw((apex-(w,0))--(apex+(w,0))); // ceiling
draw((-W/2-w/2,0)--(w+W/2,0)); // floor[/asy]
A block of mass $m=\text{4.2 kg}$ slides through a frictionless table with speed $v$ and collides with a block of identical mass $m$, initially at rest, that hangs on a pendulum as shown above. The collision is perfectly elastic and the pendulum block swings up to an angle $\theta=12^\circ$, as labeled in the diagram. It takes a time $ t = \text {1.0 s} $ for the block to swing up to this peak. Find $10v$, in $\text{m/s}$ and round to the nearest integer. Do not approximate $ \theta \approx 0 $; however, assume $\theta$ is small enough as to use the small-angle approximation for the period of the pendulum.
[i](Ahaan Rungta, 6 points)[/i]
2013 IPhOO, 3
A rigid (solid) cylinder is put at the top of a frictionless $25^\circ$-to-the-horizontal incline that is $3.0 \, \text{m}$ high. It is then released so that it rolls down the incline. If $v$ is the speed at the bottom of the incline, what is $v^2$, in $\text{m}^2/\text{s}^2$?
[i](B. Dejean and Ahaan Rungta, 3 points)[/i]
[b]Note[/b]: Since there is no friction, the cylinder cannot roll, and thus the problem is flawed. Two answers were accepted and given full credit.