Despite being named for Fermi, a “golden rule” first derived by this physicist predicts transitions due to perturbations. Both state vectors and observables have time dependence in a framework introduced by this physicist called the interaction picture. This physicist’s eponymous equation predicts free particles undergo rapid oscillatory motion called Zitterbewegung (“TSIT-ur-buh-VAY-goong”). The existence of a single magnetic monopole implies the quantization of electric charge according to this physicist’s quantization condition. This physicist “factored” the wave equation to find gamma matrices and spinors used in his namesake equation. The existence of negative energy solutions led this man to propose his namesake “sea” of electrons. For 10 points, what British physicist developed a namesake relativistic generalization of the Schrödinger equation? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 73.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 11 | 64% | 0% | 45% | 75.86 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 79.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 40% | 66.14 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 60% | 89.50 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 68.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 25% | 92.60 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 38% | 98.60 |
| UK | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.78 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 12 | -5 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford B | Southampton B | 12 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | McGill C | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 28 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 29 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 29 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Purdue A | 32 | -5 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE A | 32 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 32 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 32 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | Berkeley D | 35 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 35 | -5 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto I | 36 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto D | 36 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | USC | 36 | 10 |
| Aarnav Vyas | Illinois B | Notre Dame D | 38 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri A | 40 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 40 | -5 |
| Ryan Graham | Alberta B | UCO | 44 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 46 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 48 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Toronto J | 49 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Michigan A | 56 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 56 | -5 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Durham B | 56 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 56 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Illinois C | 58 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 59 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Kentucky | 59 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Washington A | 61 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McMaster C | 62 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UF E | 66 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 66 | -5 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Michigan B | 68 | 10 |
| Ross Killgo | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 77 | -5 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 78 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville A | 84 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 84 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 85 | -5 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | UTD B | 85 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 90 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | -5 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 92 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Carleton | 92 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 96 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 107 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 107 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 108 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Macalester A | 108 | -5 |
| Jakub Hel | UAB A | Alabama B | 110 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 111 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 111 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Southampton A | 112 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley E | 115 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Guelph A | 115 | -5 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 115 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 116 | -5 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Toronto B | 117 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Waterloo | 117 | 0 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto K | 117 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Ottawa | 117 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 117 | 0 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Chicago B | 117 | 0 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 117 | 0 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 117 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | UIC | 117 | 0 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 117 | 0 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto H | 117 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster B | 117 | 0 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 117 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester B | 117 | 0 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 117 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 117 | 0 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 117 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama A | 117 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 117 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 117 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Sheffield A | 117 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 117 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA C | 117 | 0 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | UCSB | 117 | 0 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 117 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 117 | 0 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 117 | 0 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Tulsa | 117 | 0 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Iowa | 117 | 0 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 117 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 117 | 0 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 117 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 117 | 0 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 117 | 0 |