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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 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | UCLA F | 28 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | McMaster A | 28 | 10 |
| Nate Brown | CWRU C | Pittsburgh | 28 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Michigan State C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | UCLA C | 31 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto H | Guelph A | 31 | 10 |
| Johnathan Ahdout | Princeton | George Mason B | 31 | 10 |
| Aryan Malhotra | Rutgers C | George Mason C | 31 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | William Woods University A | 31 | -5 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | Purdue D | 31 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Arizona State B | 31 | -5 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Central Oklahoma A | 31 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Archer Queen | 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 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Washington Masu | 33 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Washington Steelhead | 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 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty B | 42 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | UNC C | 42 | 10 |
| Steven Su | Harvard | Boston College A | 42 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Williams C | 42 | -5 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 42 | 10 |
| Wiz Loayza | Harding | Oklahoma | 42 | -5 |
| Graham Dirks | Kansas State A | Nebraska C | 42 | 10 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | Maryland C | 43 | -5 |
| Andrew Sklar | Vassar B | Vassar A | 43 | 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 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | George Mason A | 44 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | Penn | 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 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech E | 44 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee B | 44 | 10 |
| Ben Gardberg | Cornell B | RIT A | 44 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Rochester | 44 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UC Irvine | UCLA A | 45 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Niki Ilia | Boston College B | Amherst A | 45 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts C | Brandeis Bach | 45 | 10 |
| Daniel Lu | Washington Pink | Arizona State A | 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 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UC Irvine | 48 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | McMaster C | 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 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | USC B | 58 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | Carleton B | 58 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Toronto I | 62 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida B | 62 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida Tech B | 62 | 10 |
| Chase Moss | WVU A | Michigan State D | 62 | -5 |
| Walter Carson | NCSU B | Tusculum A | 62 | -5 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | Liberty C | 62 | 10 |
| Ezra Hoogeveen | St. Thomas | Michigan Tech | 62 | 10 |
| Akif Ismail | Williams C | Dartmouth B | 62 | 10 |
| Salil Jain | Williams B | Dartmouth C | 62 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee Tech | 62 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Vanderbilt B | 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 |
| Daniel Chen | Emory A | Mississippi State A | 70 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | ESF | 70 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida A | 71 | -5 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | Liberty A | 71 | -5 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | Binghamton C | 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 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Waterloo C | 74 | -5 |
| Ba Loc Dinh | Illinois Urbana | Indiana B | 74 | 10 |
| Dashiell Helmer | Wisconsin C | Wisconsin B | 74 | -5 |
| Brandon Wiltse | Washington Chinook | Washington Atlantic | 74 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Teddi Maggay | UC Santa Barbara | USC A | 102 | 0 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | McGill C | 102 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa D | 102 | 10 |
| Lucas Hall | Waterloo C | Toronto F | 102 | 0 |
| June Miller | Florida A | ERAU Daytona A | 102 | 10 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | WVU A | 102 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Duke A | 102 | 0 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | VCU A | 102 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | Illinois Champaign | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Yesner | Brandeis Beethoven | UConn A | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Vermont A | 102 | 0 |
| Jaime Wang | Washington Atlantic | Washington Chinook | 102 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Harding | 102 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Clemson C | 102 | 10 |
| Andrew Wilson | Montevallo | Sewanne | 102 | 0 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton B | 102 | 10 |