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 (15[1])6 (15[1])times u (15[1])time the spatial derivative of u. The speed of these phenomena 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 (-5[1])scale of motion. (10[1]-5[1])The rotation of the Earth produces large-scale examples of these phenomena (10[1])named for Kelvin and Rossby. (10[2]-5[3])Examples (10[1])of these phenomena called (10[1])solitons are sometimes identified with unusually large ones called “rogue.” (10[2])For 10 points, name these phenomena that have their heights measured from crest to trough. (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: waves [accept ocean waves; accept rogue 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 before mentioned] (The first line describes oceanic Kelvin waves. The third line is the Korteweg-de Vries equation.)
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Cade ReinbergerRITSyracuse+Rochester6115
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford A6215
Kevin YeBerkeley CBerkeley B6415
Ian ChowMcDouble West-CarletonToronto100-5
Ishan JoshiOttawa BOttawa C103-5
John MarvinChicago AIllinois A10310
Ben DahlPurdue AVanderbilt11410
Will AlstonSGV CapitalAuxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University11910
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame AIndiana119-5
Nathan ZhangCornell MATLABCornell R119-5
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeSIUE11910
Braden BoothMissouri AMissouri B119-5
Ezra SantosChicago BPurdue B12010
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL H2OWUSTL XYZ12410
Michael DuWaterlooOttawa A13410
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNotre Dame B13410
Sky LiTorontoMcDouble West-Carleton14910
Tanuj ChandekarIndianaNotre Dame A14910
Ian TheysmeyerOttawa COttawa B15010
Raymond WangCornell RCornell MATLAB15010
Austin TimmermanMissouri BMissouri A15010