Question

A property with this name has “cutoff” values that quantify the blocking of cosmic rays in Earth’s atmosphere due to geomagnetic shielding, which are typically on the order of 10 GV (“G-V”). A “strong” theorem named for this property states that the event horizon of a fixed black hole must be a Killing horizon and was proven by Stephen Hawking. A property with this name equals the ratio of linear momentum to charge for a particle in a beam, and measures the extent of the deflection of particles in a magnetic field. The disk in Ehrenfest’s (10[1])paradox (-5[1])exhibits a strict property with this name (10[3])that cannot hold in special (10[1])relativity (10[1])and was proposed by Max Born. (10[1])A property (10[1])with this (10[1])name requires all pairs of points within an object to remain the same distance apart (10[2])during (10[1])motion. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])what (10[1])property (10[1])is possessed by non-deforming “bodies”? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: rigidity [accept rigid bodies; accept Born rigidity; accept Hawking’s strong rigidity theorem; accept geomagnetic cutoff rigidity]
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Adam FineChicago ATexas9410
Akshay SeetharamClaremont CollegesIllinois95-5
Geoffrey WuColumbia AChicago C10210
David BassJohns HopkinsRutgers10210
Karthik PrasadCornell BWUSTL B10210
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ANYU10710
Michal GerasimiukStanfordVanderbilt10810
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AIowa State11410
Andrew WangIllinoisClaremont Colleges11610
Richard NiuCornell ABerkeley A11810
Lydia TarekegnYale BMaryland13310
Matt SchiavonePurdueNorthwestern13310
Connor BlakeChicago BMinnesota B13410
Matthew SiffYale AGeorgia Tech13510
Shiv SeshanChicago DMichigan13510
Joy AnHarvardDuke13510
Liam KusalikWaterlooToronto B13510
Graham CopeFloridaKentucky13610
Bryan UgazArizona StateSouth Carolina13810
Danny HanPennTruman State13910
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AOttawa14010
Sky LiToronto ABerkeley B14510