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This physical theory uses analogues of rotation matrices containing hyperbolic trig functions. A common derivation in this theory that uses the Pythagorean theorem considers light bouncing between two mirrors. In this theory, the integral of gamma dt over c equals the proper time. Lorentz transformations convert four-vectors between inertial reference frames in this theory, which holds that simultaneity depends on your reference frame. This theory predicts that moving objects experience time dilation and length contraction, and it was developed in one of the “annus mirabilis” papers. For 10 points, name this theory of Albert Einstein that he expanded into a “general” form. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 27.25 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 35.33 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 76.50 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 37.50 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 73.25 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 46.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 33% | 51.86 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 45.33 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 56.44 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 52.67 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 25% | 59.91 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 50.13 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 53.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 57.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 72.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikhil Nair | Boston University B | MIT A | 11 | 10 |
| Taran Knutson | Michigan A | CWRU B | 13 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD A | 14 | 10 |
| Justin Sato | Stanford A | UCSC | 17 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Toronto G | 21 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago B | Chicago A | 25 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Berkeley Skeleton King | 28 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | McMaster A | 28 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Michigan State C | 28 | 10 |
| Nate Brown | CWRU C | Pittsburgh | 28 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers B | Lehigh B | 28 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois Blue | Iowa B | 28 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Washington State | 28 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | UCLA F | 28 | 10 |
| Caleb Houston | Tulsa B | Rose State | 28 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto C | Brock A | 30 | 10 |
| Andrew Wu | Columbia A | Rutgers D | 30 | 10 |
| Ty Brennan | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Berkeley Little Prince | 31 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto H | Guelph A | 31 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Arizona State B | 31 | -5 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Central Oklahoma A | 31 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | UCLA C | 31 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | Purdue D | 31 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | William Woods University A | 31 | -5 |
| Johnathan Ahdout | Princeton | George Mason B | 31 | 10 |
| Aryan Malhotra | Rutgers C | George Mason C | 31 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Archer Queen | 33 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Washington Steelhead | 33 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Washington Masu | 33 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont C | UCLA D | 33 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary A | JMU B | 33 | 10 |
| Aarnav Vyas | Illinois Orange | Purdue A | 33 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | UNC D | NCSU A | 35 | 10 |
| Adrian O'Leary | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 36 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Alberta A | 40 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | UNC C | 42 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Williams C | 42 | -5 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 42 | 10 |
| Graham Dirks | Kansas State A | Nebraska C | 42 | 10 |
| Steven Su | Harvard | Boston College A | 42 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty B | 42 | 10 |
| Wiz Loayza | Harding | Oklahoma | 42 | -5 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | Maryland C | 43 | -5 |
| Andrew Sklar | Vassar B | Vassar A | 43 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | George Mason A | 44 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo B | Toronto D | 44 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Florida Tech A | South Florida A | 44 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Michigan B | 44 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota | 44 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown A | Boston University A | 44 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Vanderbilt C | 44 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Rochester | 44 | 10 |
| Ben Gardberg | Cornell B | RIT A | 44 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | Penn | 44 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee B | 44 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech E | 44 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Ottawa B | 45 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State A | Ohio State A | 45 | 10 |
| Akhil Upadrasta | Ohio State D | Michigan D | 45 | 10 |
| Daniel Lu | Washington Pink | Arizona State A | 45 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UC Irvine | UCLA A | 45 | -5 |
| Niki Ilia | Boston College B | Amherst A | 45 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts C | Brandeis Bach | 45 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Ohio State C | 46 | 10 |
| Bonham Buchannon | Louisville D | WVU B | 46 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Amherst B | 46 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 46 | 10 |
| Cara Leonard | William & Mary C | UNC B | 47 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | McMaster C | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UC Irvine | 48 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Clemson B | 48 | 10 |
| Francis Dinh | Illinois Canada | Rose-Hulman A | 52 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Iowa State | 52 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 52 | 10 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Indiana A | 53 | -5 |
| Cas Fidel | Tulsa A | Kansas State B | 53 | -5 |
| Shaya Farahmand | Georgia Tech B | Auburn C | 53 | 10 |
| Chris Chang | USC A | UC Santa Barbara | 55 | -5 |
| Kingsley Chen | McGill A | Ottawa A | 57 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | Maryland A | 57 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | Carleton B | 58 | -5 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | USC B | 58 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Toronto I | 62 | 10 |
| Chase Moss | WVU A | Michigan State D | 62 | -5 |
| Walter Carson | NCSU B | Tusculum A | 62 | -5 |
| Akif Ismail | Williams C | Dartmouth B | 62 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida B | 62 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida Tech B | 62 | 10 |
| Ezra Hoogeveen | St. Thomas | Michigan Tech | 62 | 10 |
| Salil Jain | Williams B | Dartmouth C | 62 | 10 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | Liberty C | 62 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Vanderbilt B | 62 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee Tech | 62 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska B | Central Oklahoma B | 64 | 10 |
| Thomas Zhao | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 65 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | WashU Grolars | 67 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | ESF | 70 | 10 |
| Daniel Chen | Emory A | Mississippi State A | 70 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida A | 71 | -5 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | Binghamton C | 71 | -5 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | Liberty A | 71 | -5 |
| Malcolm Meyn | McGill C | Ottawa C | 73 | -5 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | JMU A | 73 | -5 |
| Grace Early | Iowa A | WashU Grizzlers | 73 | -5 |
| Brandon Wiltse | Washington Chinook | Washington Atlantic | 74 | -5 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Waterloo C | 74 | -5 |
| Dashiell Helmer | Wisconsin C | Wisconsin B | 74 | -5 |
| Ba Loc Dinh | Illinois Urbana | Indiana B | 74 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 74 | -5 |
| Bryce Younger | Boise State | British Columbia C | 78 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 85 | 10 |
| Duncan Occhiogrosso | UConn A | Brandeis Beethoven | 88 | -5 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | MIT B | 91 | -5 |
| Andres Lorenzo | RIT B | Cornell C | 94 | -5 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU Grizzlers | Iowa A | 96 | 10 |
| Jacie Bradley | Clemson C | Georgia A | 96 | -5 |
| Anastasia Thacker | Wisconsin B | Wisconsin C | 97 | 0 |
| William Kiker | Dartmouth A | Brown B | 99 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Columbia B | 100 | 10 |
| Reid Eichberg | Tufts B | Southern Connecticut State University A | 101 | 10 |
| Connor Yu | Cornell C | RIT B | 101 | 10 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | McGill C | 102 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa D | 102 | 10 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | WVU A | 102 | 10 |
| Jaime Wang | Washington Atlantic | Washington Chinook | 102 | 10 |
| Lucas Hall | Waterloo C | Toronto F | 102 | 0 |
| June Miller | Florida A | ERAU Daytona A | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Yesner | Brandeis Beethoven | UConn A | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Vermont A | 102 | 0 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton B | 102 | 10 |
| Teddi Maggay | UC Santa Barbara | USC A | 102 | 0 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Duke A | 102 | 0 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | VCU A | 102 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | Illinois Champaign | 102 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Harding | 102 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Clemson C | 102 | 10 |
| Andrew Wilson | Montevallo | Sewanne | 102 | 0 |