Question
A form of this phenomenon studied by Aldert van der Ziel that occurs in the abelian sandpile model is sometimes named for the fact that it obeys an inverse power law with an exponent between 1 and 2. So-called “dark current” occurs due to a type of this phenomenon discovered via experiments in vacuum tubes. A form of this phenomenon is modelled as a Poisson process and occurs due to electric charge quantization. Thermal agitation produces a form of this phenomenon named for Johnson and Nyquist. A form of this phenomenon has a constant power spectral density across all frequencies and is called its “white” form. For 10 points, name this random fluctuation of a signal, which in audio devices is responsible for the sound of static. ■END■
ANSWER: noise [accept shot noise, white noise, pink noise, one-over-f noise, Poisson noise, or Johnson–Nyquist noise]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.00 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.17 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 102.40 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.67 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 95.00 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 100.50 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 102.44 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 110.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 37 | -5 |
Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 54 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | NYU A | 70 | 10 |
Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago D | 71 | 10 |
Alex Akridge | Indiana A | WashU B | 72 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago C | 72 | 10 |
JD Kroth | Iowa State | Carleton | 72 | -5 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia C | 72 | 10 |
Leo Law | Florida A | Valencia A | 74 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU A | Indiana B | 74 | 10 |
Luke Robitaille | MIT A | UMass Boston | 74 | -5 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | Tufts A | 81 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon A | 85 | 10 |
Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Michigan State | 85 | 10 |
Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Case Western A | 85 | 10 |
Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 85 | 10 |
Joy An | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 85 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Stanford B | 85 | 10 |
Catherine Welch | UW A | UBC | 85 | 10 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 85 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Louisville A | 85 | 10 |
Danny Han | Penn A | Rutgers A | 85 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 85 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago B | 87 | 10 |
Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Iowa | 87 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 87 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 89 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | William & Mary | 90 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois C | 90 | 10 |
Kaiben Bennett | Haverford B | George Washington A | 90 | 10 |
Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 93 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 93 | 10 |
Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Duke | 101 | 10 |
Bill Zhao | Florida B | UCF C | 105 | 10 |
Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | South Carolina | 105 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 105 | 10 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 105 | 10 |
Noah Chen | Columbia B | Yale A | 105 | 10 |
Taaj Rai | George Washington B | NYU B | 105 | -5 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 108 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC D | 108 | 10 |
Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 108 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 109 | 10 |
Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Carnegie Mellon B | 112 | 10 |
Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis A | 115 | 10 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 119 | 10 |
Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 121 | 10 |
Ian Switzer | Kenyon | Case Western B | 123 | 10 |
Catherine Major | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 127 | 0 |
Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Iowa State | 127 | 0 |
Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Northwestern B | 127 | 0 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Georgetown A | 127 | 0 |
Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford A | 127 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 127 | 10 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 127 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 127 | 10 |