spinors - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

This mathematical structure is approximated when a USB stick needs to be flipped twice before it fits the port. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these elements of complex vector spaces that must be rotated 720 degrees to return to their original state. A 360-degree rotation transforms these elements into their negatives.

ANSWER: spinors

[10e] A spinor can be imagined as an arrow embedded within this topological structure with only one edge. This shape transforms that arrow to its negative after 1 full rotation since this shape is a loop with a half-twist.

ANSWER: Mobius strip [or Mobius loop]

[10h] Constructing the exterior algebra of an even number of copies of the spinor subspace corresponds to particles whose spin value is in this set.

ANSWER: integers

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	80%	40%	80%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	80%	20%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	20%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


Brandeis A	BU	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech C	10	10	10	30
South Carolina	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Clark House	Amherst	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
MIT	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
Boston College A	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin C	Yale	0	10	0	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Social credit go vroom	10	10	0	20
bingy academy	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Madmen and Specialists	0	10	10	20
The cult of SGA	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	0	10	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
Penn State	Maryland	0	10	10	20
Pitt	RIT	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF A	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF C	0	10	10	20
Valencia	USF	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Carleton A	10	10	10	30
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Waterloo Basic	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Johns Creek	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy A	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy C	Lambert	0	10	10	20
Milton	Innovation Academy B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Southampton	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Anderson et al.	10	10	10	30
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	10	10	0	20
ALCU	U[C]SD	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	10	0	20
Boston College B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0