INPhO 2018, Теория — Задача 4. An hour glass on a weighing scale
Indian National Physics Olympiad – 2018 · 28 януари 2018 г. · 9 т.
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All seven matching archived keys are retained, including alternative ladder methods, unequal-resistor generalization, accepted ranges and the full handwritten graph. Printed refraction, hourglass, Fibonacci and notation inconsistencies remain literal with separate source notes. The full original includes nineteen blank detailed-answer sheets and two graph papers.
Native cover and instructions
Indian National Physics Olympiad – 2018
Date: 28 January 2018. Time: 09:00–12:00 (3 hours). Maximum Marks: 75.
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Table of Constants
| Quantity | Symbol | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Speed of light in vacuum | ||
| Planck’s constant | ||
| Universal constant of Gravitation | ||
| Magnitude of electron charge | ||
| Rest mass of electron | ||
| Rest mass of proton | ||
| Value of | ||
| Avogadro’s number | ||
| Acceleration due to gravity | ||
| Universal Gas Constant | ||
| Molar mass of water | ||
| Permeability constant |
| Question | Marks | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 2 | 8 | |
| 3 | 12 | |
| 4 | 9 | |
| 5 | 10 | |
| 6 | 17 | |
| 7 | 15 | |
| Total | 75 |
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Native key cover and marking policy
Solutions of Indian National Physics Olympiad – 2018
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Условие
An hour glass is placed on a weighing scale. Initially all the sand of mass kg in the glass is held in the upper reservoir (ABC) and the mass of the glass alone is kg. At , the sand is released. It exits the upper reservoir at constant rate kg/s where is the mass of the sand in the upper reservoir at time sec. Assume that the speed of the falling sand is zero at the neck of the glass and after it falls through a constant height it instantaneously comes to rest on the floor (DE) of the hour glass. Obtain the reading on the scale for all times . Make a detailed plot of the reading vs time.

Summary answer field: Reading on the scale: [blank].

Detailed answers can be found on page numbers: [blank].
Решение
Velocity of grain when reaches to bottom . At , sand is released. Time taken .
For , the scale was . As , more sand will enter the mid air portion and hence the reading will drop,
Here is the time when all the sand has left the upper reservoir. Just after , force on the scale will partly due to weight of sand as given in above equation and partly due to impulse provided by falling sand.
Here . This is the time span between the sand has left upper reservoir to when all sand has reached the floor of the hour glass. The weight is
For
weight is

Source note: These are literal printed key expressions. The question defines as the remaining mass in the upper reservoir but gives ; the key reuses both for flowing mass () and in total-weight/time expressions instead of the initial . Eq. (12) prints although the native graph depicts a reading that decreases throughout the first interval. Eq. (14) prints an equals sign in , while its final expression uses . The graph assumes the pictured order ; the source does not supply a separate case for an upper reservoir that empties before the first grain arrives. No replacement formula or additional unprinted case has been inserted.
Оригинал в Архива: INPhO2018-Question.pdf · решение от архива: INPhO2018-Solution-20180213.pdf