The true anomaly of a trajectory with this shape with respect to time can be found from Barker’s equation. The proposal of flight with this shape to simulate zero-gravity was hypothesized by the Haber brothers, leading to the development of NASA’s “Vomit Comet.” Perfect orbits with this shape while hypothetically possible don’t exist in nature because of the necessity of traveling at an object's exact escape velocity. (*) Mirrors with this two dimensional shape can collimate light from a point source or send straight parallel rays to a common focus point. Galileo gave instructions on how to draw one of these shapes in Two New Sciences, in which he also notably demonstrated a certain motion had this shape. For 10 points, name this shape of the trajectory of classical projectile motion. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 25% | 62.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 69.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 70.83 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 54.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 100.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 69.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 47.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 71% | 14% | 62.71 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 89% | 78% | 22% | 53.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 112.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Niu | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | In Search of Lost Clues | 18 | 15 |
| Coby Tran | UChicago B | Indiana | 18 | -5 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | VT A | Planck Sinatra | 29 | 15 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT B | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | 30 | 15 |
| Joseph Krol | To buzz is to be perceived | Washed Scrubs | 30 | 15 |
| Linus Luu | question mark | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 34 | 15 |
| Austin Zagorski | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | Truman State | 34 | 15 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 34 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Stanford B | 34 | 15 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois | 34 | 15 |
| Oscar Siddle | Chimp Brisket | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 37 | 15 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Columbia A | 37 | 15 |
| Matt Booth | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Knorr Stock Clue | 38 | 15 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland A | John Jay | 42 | 15 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo you are crooked | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 42 | 15 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa 67s | Guelph perfomative male competition | 42 | 15 |
| Charlie Lowman | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Coughing Baby | 42 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto G | McGill Fartlets | 42 | 15 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | #OpenToBuzz | 42 | 15 |
| Mats Miller | UChicago C | UChicago A | 43 | 15 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | abg academy | New Young Whigs of America | 44 | -5 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 47 | 15 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brandeis | 48 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Kiki | WashU Bouba | 60 | 15 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 63 | 15 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU | Michigan A | 65 | -5 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Columbia B | 65 | 15 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 66 | 15 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | Galactic Ombudsmen | 66 | 15 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Harvard | 68 | 10 |
| Matthew Schiavone | Northwestern A | Purdue B | 70 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 71 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | NYU B | 72 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | RIT | 72 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | VT B | UNC B | 77 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's is monitoring the situation | McGill B | 78 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Swarthmore | 79 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | The Bit and the Penndulum | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 81 | -5 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Toronto E | 90 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | rusty shackleford | 94 | 10 |
| Omer Korkmaz | JHU B | JHU A | 96 | -5 |
| Aditya Sharma | Wise Duke | UNC A | 103 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Bristold | 106 | -5 |
| Richard McNair | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | The Bit and the Penndulum | 130 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | CWRU | 130 | 10 |
| Aneesh Swaminathan | JHU A | JHU B | 130 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | New Young Whigs of America | abg academy | 130 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 130 | 10 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | Michigan C | 130 | 0 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Texas B | 130 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Oklahoma | 130 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana | UChicago B | 130 | 10 |
| Alec Zelek | Toronto E | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | 130 | 10 |