Are there any high school physics contest questions available in book form?

In summary, there are a few books that could potentially provide questions for a high school physics contest, such as Flying Circus of Physics by Walker and Thinking Physics by Epstein. However, the questions and answers in these books are more focused on concepts and handwaving rather than calculations. Additionally, resources from the Physics Olympiad Screening Exams and International Physics Olympiad may be too advanced for the desired level. A possible source for sample questions is the problem set from Sin's Physics Challenge.
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Is there any book with questions that would typically appear on a physics contest? I'm talking about high school physics here.
 
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Are those hand waving questions or is there a good portion of calculations?
 
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robphy, here is a sample of the kind of questions I'm looking for:

http://sin.uwaterloo.ca/pdfs/problemset.pdf"

the Olympiads might be to intensive for the level I'm looking for but I'll look into it.
 
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