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There are two trains running toward each other, and a ball which bouncing between trains. Calculate the total distance that the ball travels between trains before the trains meet. There was a catch about this problem, unfortunately, I don't remember what it was now.
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Senior Software Engineer - Consultant

Interviewed at Goldman Sachs

3.7
Nov 9, 2011

There are two trains running toward each other, and a ball which bouncing between trains. Calculate the total distance that the ball travels between trains before the trains meet. There was a catch about this problem, unfortunately, I don't remember what it was now.

Four technical questions: 1) two spheres of the same mass and volume, one solid and one hollow. How to do you tell which is which? 2) Car driving towards a cliff, is it best to brake or turn to avoid? 3) Water empting from a horizontal pipe into a container, you're measuring the weight of the container to get a known weight. There is a valve in the pipe which is closed when a specified weight is measured, what should it be set to? 4) A drawer is sticking as you pull it out, what are the conditions for it not sticking?
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Consultant Mechanical Engineer

Interviewed at The Technology Partnership

4
Sep 15, 2014

Four technical questions: 1) two spheres of the same mass and volume, one solid and one hollow. How to do you tell which is which? 2) Car driving towards a cliff, is it best to brake or turn to avoid? 3) Water empting from a horizontal pipe into a container, you're measuring the weight of the container to get a known weight. There is a valve in the pipe which is closed when a specified weight is measured, what should it be set to? 4) A drawer is sticking as you pull it out, what are the conditions for it not sticking?

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