China is a world by itself, especially for the purpose of science olympiads.

Nearly all residents of this

world, including students and their teachers, use Chinese as their only language. They have little interest
in other languages, and they are usually poor at English.

Below I translate the first problem of Chinese PhO 2016 for you. Sorry for not being able to translate
more.

Datong Coal mine, Shanxi Province, has a height of h relative to Qinhuang Island. A train of mass m_t
carries coal of mass m_c and travels from Datong to Qinhuang Island along the Da-Qin railway, covering
distance l. After coal is downloaded, the empty train returns. On the way from Datong to Qinhuang
Island, part of the total potential energy of the train and the coal is used for work done against
resistance of the air and the track, while the rest is converted to electric energy by a generator, the
conversion efficiency of which is η_1 on average. All electric energy is stored for use in the return trip. In
the return trip, the stored electric energy is used to do work against gravity and resistance, where the
efficiency of the conversion from the stored electric energy to work is η_2. Assume that, on the Da-Qin
railway, the work that must be done against resistance when the train travels for a unit of distance is
equal to the total weight (of the train and the coal, or of the train) times a constant u. Suppose the train
has zero stored electric energy when departing from Datong.

Find E, the remaining electric energy when the empty train comes back to Datong.

How much coal at the minimum does the train have to carry, in order to be able to return to Datong,
when no extra energy is provided?

Suppose the train runs at an average speed of v from Datong to Qinhuang Island. Find P, the average
output power of the generator.

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Kevin Yu, Gold medal in Asian Physics Olympiad (second place)

Answered August 8, 2017

You can’t, really.

Many friends of mine from APhO have asked me to recommend books and materials for them to
prepare for IPhO, since Chinese team has a history of winning gold medals in this competition. To my
disappointment, I realized that everything we encountered in our training was in Chinese. Moreover
Chinese is a language particularly difficult to master(I don’t think I would learn it if it were not my
mother tongue), so it would be impossible to read these materials without translation.

Before participating in APhO in Yakutsk, I had tried to find some Russian physics Olympiad problems to

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Answered August 7, 2017 · Author has 421 answers and 14M answer views

Nowhere.

After my participation at the International Physics Olympiad 2015, I tried to find the Chinese Physics
Olympiad problems in English.

I searched the web: nothing! I asked the Chinese guys: nothing! I asked a friend of mine from Australia:
nothing!

It seems like the Chinese Physics team does not want to share their problems with the rest of us. As far
as I know, they create their own problems and, obviously, do not want to distribute it as, by providing
solving material to other countries, China could lose its dominance in the Olympiad.

NOTE:

This information pertains to 2015 but I doubt the

Jad, Physics Practitioner, No-maj (2015-present)

Answered November 19, 2018

Wanna chime in and say something. People say there’s not an English version of CPhO problems.
Perhaps. But please don’t dig deeper for self-comforting.

The problems are totally open on web, they are not secret at all… Actually, You could always find them
on Chinese file sharing websites e.g. wenku.baidu.com and perhaps translate them with google. To me,
it is just that CPhO committee doesn’t think it’s worth it to translate them to English, since the test is
just for internal selection purpose. If there is an IPhO team find it helpful trying those problems, I don’t
believe they cannot find some

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Martha Kirtley, B. A. Chemistry, Rice University (1974)

Answered August 8, 2017 · Author has 17.9K answers and 11.2M answer views

I could find them in Chinese, but not in English, or any other language. Sito in costruzione really irks me
to have to say I couldn't find something.

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