Question
According to QED, this fundamental force is mediated by the exchange of photons. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this force, whose fields are described by Maxwell’s equations. It is the dominant force in interactions between atoms and molecules.
ANSWER: electromagnetic force [or electromagnetic interaction; or electromagnetism or EM]
[10h] This man sometimes co-names Maxwell’s equations, because he rewrote them into their most common modern form. The integral of the Dirac delta function gives this scientist’s namesake “step function.”
ANSWER: Oliver Heaviside
[10m] Maxwell’s equations can be formulated to be invariant under these transformations, which transform between coordinate systems on Minkowski space. With translations, these transformations comprise the Poincaré (“pwan-ka-RAY”) group.
ANSWER: Lorentz transformations [prompt on boosts or rotations]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 5.00 | 33% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| Lehigh | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU A | NYU C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Princeton | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| University of Delaware B | Rowan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swarthmore B | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |