relativity - Lower Mid-Atlantic

Question

Answer the following about physics motivated by thought experiments involving boats, for 10 points each.

[10e] Galileo’s ship is a thought experiment demonstrating a classical principle of this name. A later physicist and sailing enthusiast developed a “special” theory of this name during the annus mirabilis.

ANSWER: relativity [accept principle of relativity or special relativity; accept SR; reject “general relativity” or “GR”]

[10m] Konstantin Tsiolkovsky imagined someone leaping from a steamboat to derive an equation named for these specific objects that governs the change in their velocity as a function of their mass ratio.

ANSWER: rockets [prompt on spaceships or spacecraft]

[10h] This scientist’s paper “On Ship Waves” explains his namesake wake pattern produced by boats. This avid yachtsman observed that the convective derivative of circulation is zero in an ideal fluid.

ANSWER: Lord Kelvin [or William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]

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California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	92%	33%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	5.71	43%	14%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	70%	30%	10%
North	Main	Y	11	11.82	82%	36%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	8.00	40%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	5	6.00	40%	20%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	67%	58%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


CWRU C	CWRU D	10	0	10
MSU A	OSU D	10	10	20
OSU B	OSU C	10	0	10
Pitt A	CWRU A	10	10	20
MSU B	Pitt C	0	0	0
OSU A	CWRU B	10	10	20
Pitt B	Kenyon B	0	0	0