Question
A 2023 paper by Wen et al. describes how a quantity named for this physicist is octupled for the ovipositors of female Megarhyssa wasps before they lay eggs in wood. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this physicist who names the longitudinal compression load at which a given slender column buckles. This physicist is the alphabetically-later namesake of a fourth-order ODE relating a beam’s deflection to its applied load.
ANSWER: Leonhard Euler [accept Euler’s critical load or Euler–Bernoulli equation]
[10e] Euler’s critical load is proportional to this quantity for the column, denoted capital I. This rotational analog of mass multiplies angular acceleration to give torque.
ANSWER: moment of inertia [or rotational inertia; or angular mass; or mass moment of inertia; or second moment of mass]
[10h] The bending behavior of the Megarhyssa ovipositor exemplifies this structural design approach coined by Buckminster Fuller, in which compressed components are isolated from each other within a network of pre-tensioned cables.
ANSWER: tensegrity [or tensional integrity or floating compression]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 55.00 | 250% | 150% | 150% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 0% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 88% | 63% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| MTSU | Alabama | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Geodesic | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Harding | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |