Thomas Edison - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

An effect sometimes named for this man was believed to be caused by the release of thermions until the later discovery of the electron. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this American scientist who anonymously founded Science magazine and got the first patent for carbon microphones.

ANSWER: Thomas Edison [or Thomas Alva Edison]

[10h] The Edison effect or thermionic emission results in the phenomena of space charge which is modeled by an equation named for Child and this scientist. This scientist’s waves are an alternate term for plasma oscillations.

ANSWER: Irving Langmuir

[10e] The vacuum diode in the basic form of the Child-Langmuir law consists of an anode and this positively charged counterpart, to which the electrons in a space charge flow.

ANSWER: cathode

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	100%	14%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	100%	11%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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RIT	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	CWRU	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	JHU A	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Swarthmore	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	JHU B	0	0	10	10
Mount Sinai	John Jay	0	0	10	10
NYU A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Texas B	10	0	10	20
MIT A	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Illinois	UChicago C	0	0	10	10
Indiana	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
UChicago B	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
UChicago A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
New Young Whigs of America	Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	10	0	10	20
abg academy	rusty shackleford	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	In Search of Lost Clues	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Free Win	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	0	10	10	20
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	0	10	10
Washed Scrubs	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	0	10	10
Of Mice and Penn	Chimp Brisket	0	0	10	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	10	0	10	20
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Coughing Baby	0	10	10	20
Bristold	The Bit and the Penndulum	0	0	10	10
To buzz is to be perceived	Hail to the Sheaf	0	0	10	10
question mark	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	0	10	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	Waterloo you are crooked	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	0	10	20
Queen's is monitoring the situation	McGill Fartlets	0	0	10	10
#OpenToBuzz	Ottawa 67s	0	0	10	10
Guelph perfomative male competition	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	0	10	10	20
Planck Sinatra	VT A	0	0	10	10
Wise Duke	UNC A	0	0	10	10
Truman State	WashU Kiki	0	0	10	10
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	WashU Bouba	0	0	10	10
Yale	Brown	0	0	10	10
Harvard	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	10	10