Found problems: 473
If the rotational inertia of a sphere about an axis through the center of the sphere is $I$, what is the rotational inertia of another sphere that has the same density, but has twice the radius?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 2I \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 4I \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 8I\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 16I\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 32I $
Three chords of a sphere, each having length $5,6,7$, intersect at a single point inside the sphere and are pairwise perpendicular. For $R$ the maximum possible radius of this sphere, find $R^2$.
A polyhedron is circumscribed around a sphere. Let's call its face [i]large [/i] if the projection of the sphere onto the plane of the face falls entirely within the face. Prove that there are no more than 6 large faces.
A sphere is inscribed in a regular tetrahedron. Another regular tetrahedron is inscribed in the sphere. Find the ratio of the volumes of these two tetrahedra.
A square and equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. If the triangle has area $16\sqrt3$, what is the area of the square?
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
We say that a finite set of points is [i]well scattered[/i] on the surface of a sphere if every open hemisphere (half the surface of the sphere without its boundary) contains at least one of the points. The set $\{ (1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,0,1) \}$ is not well scattered on the unit sphere (the sphere of radius $1$ centered at the origin), but if you add the correct point $P$ it becomes well scattered. Find, with proof, all possible points $P$ that would make the set well scattered.
Each point of the 3-dimensional space is coloured with exactly one of the colours red, green and blue. Let $R$, $G$ and $B$, respectively, be the sets of the lengths of those segments in space whose both endpoints have the same colour (which means that both are red, both are green and both are blue, respectively). Prove that at least one of these three sets includes all non-negative reals.
A "[i]2-line[/i]" is the area between two parallel lines. Length of "2-line" is distance of two parallel lines. We have covered unit circle with some "2-lines". Prove sum of lengths of "2-lines" is at least 2.
The tetrahedron $SABC$ has the following property: there exist five spheres, each tangent to the edges $SA, SB, SC, BC, CA, AB,$ or to their extensions.
a) Prove that the tetrahedron $SABC$ is regular.
b) Prove conversely that for every regular tetrahedron five such spheres exist.
A square and equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. If the triangle has area $16\sqrt3$, what is the area of the square?
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
Prove that the sum of the distances of the vertices of a regular tetrahedron from the center of its circumscribed sphere is less than the sum of the distances of these vertices from any other point in space.
The period of a given pendulum on a planet of radius $R$ is constant (unchanged) as we go from the surface of the planet down to radius $a$, where $R > a$. The planet has mass density evenly distributed at any radius $ r < a $. This density is $\rho_0$. Find the total mass of the planet. Express your answer in terms of $\rho_0$, $a$, $R$, the period of the pendulum, $T$, the length of the pendulum string, $L$, and other constants, as necessary.
[b]Warning[/b]: Your answer may contain some math. So be sure to input this correctly!
[i]Problem proposed by Trung Phan[/i]
Eight spheres of radius 100 are placed on a flat surface so that each sphere is tangent to two others and their centers are the vertices of a regular octagon. A ninth sphere is placed on the flat surface so that it is tangent to each of the other eight spheres. The radius of this last sphere is $a+b\sqrt{c},$ where $a, b,$ and $c$ are positive integers, and $c$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $a+b+c.$
Points $A_1$, $A_2$, $A_3$, $A_4$ are the vertices of a regular tetrahedron of edge length $1$. The points $B_1$ and $B_2$ lie inside the figure bounded by the plane $A_1A_2A_3$ and the spheres of radius $1$ and centres $A_1$, $A_2$, $A_3$.
Prove that $B_1B_2 < \max\{B_1A_1, B_1A_2, B_1A_3, B_1A_4\}$.
[i] A. Kupavsky [/i]
What is the radius of the largest sphere that fits inside the tetrahedron whose vertices are the points $(0, 0, 0)$, $(1, 0, 0)$, $(0, 1, 0)$, $(0, 0, 1)$?
Prove that the sum of the distances of the vertices of a regular tetrahedron from the center of its circumscribed sphere is less than the sum of the distances of these vertices from any other point in space.
Prove that for every positive integer $n \geq 3$ there exist two sets $A =\{ x_1, x_2,\ldots, x_n\}$ and $B =\{ y_1, y_2,\ldots, y_n\}$ for which
[b]i)[/b] $A \cap B = \varnothing.$
[b]ii)[/b] $x_1+ x_2+\cdots+ x_n= y_1+ y_2+\cdots+ y_n.$
[b]ii)[/b] $x_1^2+ x_2^2+\cdots+ x_n^2= y_1^2+ y_2^2+\cdots+ y_n^2.$
Prove that every partition of $3$-dimensional space into three disjoint subsets has the following property: One of these subsets contains all possible distances; i.e., for every $a \in \mathbb R^+$, there are points $M$ and $N$ inside that subset such that distance between $M$ and $N$ is exactly $a.$
Five points are chosen on the sphere, no three of them lying on a great circle (a great circle is the intersection of the sphere with some plane passing through the sphere’s centre). Two great circles not containing any of the chosen points are called equivalent if one of them can be moved to the other without passing through any chosen points.
(a) How many nonequivalent great circles not containing any chosen points can be drawn on the sphere?
(b) Answer the same problem, but with $n$ chosen points.
a) Prove that center of smallest sphere containing a finite subset of $\mathbb R^{n}$ is inside convex hull of the point that lie on sphere.
b) $A$ is a finite subset of $\mathbb R^{n}$, and distance of every two points of $A$ is not larger than 1. Find radius of the largest sphere containing $A$.
Let $S_1$ and $S_2$ be two spheres with distinct radii that touch externally. The spheres lie inside a cone $C$, and each sphere touches the cone in a full circle. Inside the cone there are $n$ additional solid spheres arranged in a ring in such a way that each solid sphere touches the cone $C$, both of the spheres $S_1$ and $S_2$ externally, as well as the two neighboring solid spheres. What are the possible values of $n$?
[i]Proposed by Iceland.[/i]
The parallelepiped contains a sphere of radius $r$ and is contained within a sphere of radius $R$. Prove that $ \frac{R}{r} \geq \sqrt{3} $.
Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron and let $E,F,G,H,K,L$ be points lying on the edges $AB,BC,CD$ $,DA,DB,DC$ respectively, in such a way that
\[AE \cdot BE = BF \cdot CF = CG \cdot AG= DH \cdot AH=DK \cdot BK=DL \cdot CL.\]
Prove that the points $E,F,G,H,K,L$ all lie on a sphere.
Let $m$ be a convex polygon in a plane, $l$ its perimeter and $S$ its area. Let $M\left( R\right) $ be the locus of all points in the space whose distance to $m$ is $\leq R,$ and $V\left(R\right) $ is the volume of the solid $M\left( R\right) .$
[i]a.)[/i] Prove that \[V (R) = \frac 43 \pi R^3 +\frac{\pi}{2} lR^2 +2SR.\]
Hereby, we say that the distance of a point $C$ to a figure $m$ is $\leq R$ if there exists a point $D$ of the figure $m$ such that the distance $CD$ is $\leq R.$ (This point $D$ may lie on the boundary of the figure $m$ and inside the figure.)
additional question:
[i]b.)[/i] Find the area of the planar $R$-neighborhood of a convex or non-convex polygon $m.$
[i]c.)[/i] Find the volume of the $R$-neighborhood of a convex polyhedron, e. g. of a cube or of a tetrahedron.
[b]Note by Darij:[/b] I guess that the ''$R$-neighborhood'' of a figure is defined as the locus of all points whose distance to the figure is $\leq R.$
Three lines were drawn through the point $X$ in space. These lines crossed some sphere at six points. It turned out that the distances from point $X$ to some five of them are equal to $2$ cm, $3$ cm, $4$ cm, $5$ cm, $6$ cm. What can be the distance from point $X$ to the sixth point?
(Alexey Panasenko)