OPhO 2020, Открит кръг — Задача 8. Angel Coaster
2020 Online Physics Olympiad (OPhO): Open Contest v1.5 · 25 май 2020 г.
2020 Online Physics Olympiad (OPhO): Open Contest v1.5
OPhO Lead Organizers and Writers: Adithya Balachandran, Eddie Chen, Ashmit Dutta, Ethan Hu, Viraj Jayam, Rishab Parthasarathy, Kushal Thaman, Max Wang, QiLin Xue
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Указания
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- Use in this contest. See the constants sheet on the following page for other constants.
- This test contains 55 short answer questions. Each problem will have three possible attempts.
- The weight of each question depends on our scoring system found here. Put simply, the later questions are worth more, and the overall amount of points from a certain question decreases with the number of attempts and days that you take to solve a problem as well as the number of teams who solve it. This means that your score decreases with the number of tries and days you take to solve a given problem.
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List of Constants
Proton mass,
Neutron mass,
Electron mass,
Avogadro’s constant,
Universal gas constant,
Boltzmann’s constant,
Electron charge magnitude,
1 electron volt,
Speed of light,
Universal Gravitational constant,
Acceleration due to gravity,
1 unified atomic mass unit,
Planck’s constant,
Permittivity of free space,
Coulomb’s law constant,
Permeability of free space,
Magnetic constant,
1 atmospheric pressure,
Wien’s displacement constant,
Stefan-Boltzmann constant,
Условие
A frictionless track contains a loop of radius . Situated on top of the track lies a small ball of mass at a height . It is then dropped and collides with another ball (of negligible size) of mass .

Let be the minimum height that was dropped such that would be able to move all the way around the loop. The coefficient of restitution for this collision is given as .
Now consider a different scenario. Assume that the balls can now collide perfectly inelastically, which means that they stick to each other instantaneously after collision for the rest of the motion. If was dropped from a height , find the minimum value of such that the combined mass can fully move all the way around the loop. Let this minimum value be . Compute . (Note that this question is only asking for but you need to find to find ). Assume the balls are point masses (neglect rotational effects).
Отговори
2.37 m⁻²
The solution prints the unit as ; since is dimensionless and is a length, is in .
Решение
Solution: The velocity of when it gets to the bottom of the track will be given by
Claim: The velocity of after collision will be given by .
Proof: Conservation of momentum before and after the collision is expressed by:
By coefficient of restitution,
These equations may be solved directly to find to give
Next, when the objects get to the top of the loop, conservation of energy gives the speed of when it gets to the top as
At the top of the loop, must at least have an acceleration to maintain circular motion, and thus
Substituting these results into our conservation equation gives us
In the second scenario, conservation of momentum before and after the collision gives:
The same conservation of energy formula as in the first scenario yields
Thus,
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