This international competition follows Russian standards; you can find the latest qualifying stage problems for Grades 8–11 on the Formula of Unity official site ISPHO (MIPT) 2024–2025:

Widely considered the "Bible" for RuPhO preparation. A complete English translation (PDF) was updated as recently as late 2022/2023. It covers everything from kinematics to Special Relativity.

Simply downloading a PDF of 500 Russian problems and skimming it is useless. Here is a training protocol used by IPhO teams.

Recent sets have moved away from pure mechanics toward "hybrid" problems that blend disciplines. Here are some examples from the latest 2024 documents:

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