The boy sliding on the hemisphere is trickier than it seems.
An energy balance will not tell you when he leaves the sphere ... finding the normal force as a function of position and finding when it is zero will.
As I grade more of the problems I'll put little comments here on what seemed to trip you.
PS - this was a graduate school qualifying exam (i.e., a comprehensive test of undergrad physics) a few years back.
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