Question

This property is scrambled to avoid damaging erbium-doped amplifiers through hole-burning. A scope partly named for this property can detect isoclinic fringes and fringes with a constant principal stress difference and has a simple form called a Savart (“suh-VAHR”) plate. Conrad Schlumberger discovered an imaging technique named for the induced form of this property. A technique named (-5[1])for this property can determine glucose concentration by finding the 16 entries of the Mueller matrix. The projection of the magnetic (10[1])field (10[1])along the direction of light propagation (10[2])is proportional to a change in this property (10[2])in the (10[1])Faraday effect. (10[2])Malus’s (10[1])law (10[2])states (10[1])the (10[1])relationship (10[2])between (10[1])intensity and this property, (10[3])which is imparted by Nicol (“NICK-le”) prisms. (10[1])Brewster’s angle is sometimes named after, for 10 points, what property of light that is its direction of oscillation? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: polarization [accept polarization scrambling or polarization hole-burning or polarizer or polarization angle; prompt on polarimetry or polariscopes by asking “what property are those named after?”]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%4%99.58

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jim FanNorth Carolina AStanford55-5
Cade ReinbergerRITColumbia B7610
Adam FineChicago AWUSTL A7710
Ezra SantosChicago BMIT8310
Benjamin ChapmanToronto AWaterloo A8310
Teigue KellyPenn StateFlorida9110
Nikhil ChellamNorthwesternColumbia A9110
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganCornell B9310
Colin VeeversOttawaArizona State9510
Andrew WangIllinois AUC Berkeley A9510
Matthew WangBritish ColumbiaGeorgia State9610
Kushal AluruRutgersIndiana9710
John John GrogerWUSTL BYale9710
Richard NiuCornell AGeorgia Tech9810
Caleb OttWaterloo BNYU9910
Shardul RaoMinnesotaIowa State10010
Calvin BostlemanOhio StateVanderbilt10010
Shiva TegullaUCFWinona State10110
Joy AnHarvardJohns Hopkins10510
Karan GurazadaTexasToronto C10510
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto BVirginia Tech10510
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BVirginia11110
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BLSE13010
Michał GerasimiukStanfordNorth Carolina A13110
Isaac MammelMarylandNorth Carolina B13110