One of these devices “flashing” between tilted flat and sawtooth potentials exhibits Parrondo’s paradox, in which alternating two losing strategies eventually wins. These devices name the effect where directed transport arises in driven, asymmetric periodic potentials, making them useful models for molecular motors. A 1962 lecture updated a thought experiment in which one of these devices in a heat bath is connected to a paddle wheel in a different heat bath. That one of these devices appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, but doesn’t actually rotate because thermal fluctuations also affect the pawl and cause the gear to slip. Socket wrenches are alternatively named for these mechanisms. For 10 points, Feynman popularized a “Brownian” example of what mechanisms that only allow motion in one direction? ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 111.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 50% | 124.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 107.50 |
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Johns Hopkins | 29 | -5 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | John Jay | 70 | 10 |
| Yared Tadesse | Cornell A | Cornell B | 82 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Sorbonne | 83 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Iowa B | 83 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Maryland C | 83 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota B | Arizona State | 83 | 10 |
| Giovanni Mazzeo | Virginia A | Roanoke College A | 86 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | MTSU | Kentucky | 87 | -5 |
| Dimitris Kalafatis | Texas A&M B | Iowa A | 102 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama | Tennessee | 105 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty A | GWU A | 108 | 10 |
| Sanjay Srihari | Georgia Tech A | Geodesic | 108 | 10 |
| Albert Zhang | Columbia C | Columbia A | 111 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | Virginia C | 111 | 10 |
| Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | UNC D | 112 | -5 |
| Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan | Haverford | 116 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 119 | 10 |
| Ryan Humphrey | Texas A | Michigan State A | 122 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford | Rowan | 123 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | UNC A | GWU B | 123 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins | NYU B | 126 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 126 | 10 |
| Isaac Olson | UW A | Appalachian State | 127 | 0 |
| Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | Claremont A | 127 | 0 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa A | Texas A&M B | 127 | 0 |
| Seth Webb | Texas A&M A | Rice A | 127 | 10 |
| Duncan Griffiths | William & Mary A | Liberty B | 127 | 10 |
| Jacob Martin | Maryland B | JMU A | 127 | 0 |
| Jennifer Haller | JMU A | Maryland B | 127 | 10 |
| Bryce Kline | JMU B | Virginia B | 127 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Vassar | 127 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar | NYU A | 127 | 0 |
| Isaac Dara | South Carolina | Vanderbilt B | 127 | 0 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | MTSU | 127 | 10 |