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A car on a hill of constant slope accelerates from rest under gravity to a point on the hill. If you want to maximize the velocity of the car at this point, where along the length of the car (e.g. downhill or uphill) would you fix an additional mass, if (a) the finishing point is on the slope of the hill or (b) the finishing point is on a flat below the slope of the hill.
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Mechanical Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.2
Jan 6, 2010

A car on a hill of constant slope accelerates from rest under gravity to a point on the hill. If you want to maximize the velocity of the car at this point, where along the length of the car (e.g. downhill or uphill) would you fix an additional mass, if (a) the finishing point is on the slope of the hill or (b) the finishing point is on a flat below the slope of the hill.

Two trains, each moving at 20 miles per hour towards each other, are initially 60 miles apart. A bee starts at the front of one train, flies to the other train, then back to the first train, and so on. If the bee always flies at 30 miles per hour, how far does the bee fly before the trains collide?
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at NetApp

3.8
Dec 13, 2012

Two trains, each moving at 20 miles per hour towards each other, are initially 60 miles apart. A bee starts at the front of one train, flies to the other train, then back to the first train, and so on. If the bee always flies at 30 miles per hour, how far does the bee fly before the trains collide?

Write a program takes in a string and a delimiter, and uses that delimiter to split a string and then will reverse the characters in every word (or jumble of characters between the delimiters), stuffing them back into a string when finished. ('The dog walks' becomes..... 'ehT god sklaw')
Feb 28, 2013

Write a program takes in a string and a delimiter, and uses that delimiter to split a string and then will reverse the characters in every word (or jumble of characters between the delimiters), stuffing them back into a string when finished. ('The dog walks' becomes..... 'ehT god sklaw')

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