speed of light - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Answer some questions about physicists who have appeared on currency, for 10 points each.

[10m] Ole Rømer, who appeared on the Danish 50 kroner note, was the first scientist to establish that this quantity is finite by observing the time between eclipses of Io. This quantity was measured with a rotating cogwheel in the Fizeau experiment.

ANSWER: speed of light [or c]

[10e] The Israeli 5 pound note featured this physicist, who described light as a particle of energy h-nu when explaining the photoelectric effect in 1905.

ANSWER: Albert Einstein

[10h] The formulator of this physical principle has appeared on banknotes from their country. This heuristic principle is rigorously explained by noting that the Green’s function for the inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation is “e to the ikr over capital R.”

ANSWER: Huygens (“HOY-gens”) principle [accept Huygens-Fresnel principle] (Christiaan Huygens is on the Dutch 25 guilder note from 1950-1970.)

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Bowdoin A	Boston College B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin C	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Clark House	Boston College A	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
MIT	Harvard	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Amherst	0	10	0	10
Yale	BU	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Truman	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Squidward Community College	0	10	0	10
WashU	Truman	10	10	0	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	10	0	20
The cult of SGA	In the Mood for Buzz	10	10	0	20
Madmen and Specialists	Social credit go vroom	10	10	0	20
Old and Young	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	0	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	bingy academy	10	10	0	20
Pitt	RIT	10	10	0	20
Maryland	Penn State	10	10	0	20
UCF A	Florida Tech	10	10	0	20
UCF B	UF A	10	0	0	10
UF B	USF	0	10	10	20
UF C	Valencia	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan A	McGill A	0	10	0	10
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Basic	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Innovation Academy B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Johns Creek	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Lambert	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Illinois Blue	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Southampton	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Warwick C	Bristol	10	10	0	20