Question
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■
Summary
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 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 114.75 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU B | Johns Hopkins | 29 | -5 |
Noah Chen | Columbia B | John Jay | 70 | 10 |
Yared Tadesse | Cornell A | Cornell B | 82 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad (UG) | UNC B (UG) | Maryland C (DII) | 83 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota B | Arizona State | 83 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC A | Iowa B | 83 | -5 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | Sorbonne | 83 | -5 |
Giovanni Mazzeo (DII) | Virginia A (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 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 (UG) | Liberty A (Grad) | GWU A (UG) | 108 | 10 |
Sanjay Srihari | Georgia Tech A | Geodesic | 108 | 10 |
Michael Eng (UG) | UNC C (UG) | Virginia C (UG) | 111 | 10 |
Albert Zhang (UG) | Columbia C | Columbia A | 111 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick (Grad) | Maryland A (Grad) | UNC D (DII) | 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 |
Jim Fan (Grad) | UNC A (Grad) | GWU B (Grad) | 123 | 10 |
Ethan Furman (DII) | Haverford | Rowan | 123 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 126 | 10 |
Maximilian Niebur (UG) | Johns Hopkins | NYU B | 126 | 10 |
Jacob Martin (UG) | Maryland B (UG) | JMU A (UG) | 127 | 0 |
Jennifer Haller (UG) | JMU A (UG) | Maryland B (UG) | 127 | 10 |
Duncan Griffiths (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | Liberty B (DII) | 127 | 10 |
Bryce Kline (UG) | JMU B (UG) | Virginia B (UG) | 127 | 10 |
Isaac Olson | UW A | Appalachian State | 127 | 0 |
Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | Claremont A | 127 | 0 |
Seth Webb | Texas A&M A | Rice A | 127 | 10 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa A | Texas A&M B | 127 | 0 |
Eshan Pant (DII) | NYU A | Vassar | 127 | 0 |
Sam Macchi (DII) | Vassar | NYU A | 127 | 0 |
Caleb West | Kentucky | MTSU | 127 | 10 |
Isaac Dara | South Carolina | Vanderbilt B | 127 | 0 |