Question

A type of these phenomena are significant only within distances on the order of the “radius of deformation.” The Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum describes the distribution of these phenomena when a system is in a state of equilibrium described as “fully developed.” A model of these phenomena sets zero equal to the time derivative of u plus the third spatial derivative of u plus 6 times u time the spatial derivative of u. The speed of these phenomena (15[1])is given by the square root of the quantity (*) g times d under an approximation that holds depth to be much less than the horizontal scale of motion. The rotation of the Earth produces large-scale examples of these phenomena named for Kelvin and Rossby. (10[1])Examples of these phenomena called (10[1])solitons are sometimes identified (10[1])with unusually large ones called “rogue.” (10[1])For 10 points, name these phenomena that have their heights measured from crest to trough. ■END■

ANSWER: waves [accept ocean waves or water waves; accept rogue waves; accept shallow water waves; accept atmospheric waves or tropospheric waves or stratospheric waves; accept (equatorial) Kelvin waves; accept Rossby waves; accept surface waves; accept gravity waves; accept solitons until read] (The first line describes oceanic Kelvin waves. The third line is the Korteweg-de Vries equation.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Michael KohnDurhamBirmingham7515
Oscar SiddleWarwickImperial A11910
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghCambridge B12410
Jaime Salamanco CamachoImperial BBristol12810
Linus LuuCambridge AOxford13410