resonance - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 8

A probability distribution describing this phenomenon equals k divided by the following: the square of the quantity “M squared minus M nought squared,” plus M nought squared times capital gamma squared. For 10 points each:

[10e] What phenomenon causes an oscillator’s amplitude to increase when it is driven near its natural frequency?

ANSWER: resonance [or nuclear resonance]

[10h] These two physicists explained why the cross-section of neutron capture increases at energies close to the rest energy of a nucleus in a 1936 paper. Therefore, the distribution describing nuclear resonance is named after them.

ANSWER: Gregory Breit AND Eugene Wigner [accept in either order; accept Breit-Wigner distribution]

[10m] The Breit-Wigner distribution also describes a form of this phenomenon that results from resonance in the Lorentz oscillator model. The “Doppler” form of this phenomenon is caused by the distribution of atoms’ velocities.

ANSWER: spectral line broadening [accept Lorentzian broadening; accept natural broadening]

<FW, Physics> | NAFTA-Packet-3

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	13.02	86%	30%	14%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
1000000 Delinquents	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	0	0	10	E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	10	10	30	EHM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	10	10	30	EHM
BHSU	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	0	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	0	0	10	E
Berkeley B	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	10	20	EM
C R A B S	Dielectrical Materialism	10	0	0	10	E
Catholic University A	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	0	10	E
Copán Seethe	David Foster Gromit	10	0	0	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	Indiana	10	10	0	20	EH
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dour Straits	0	0	10	10	M
Habitat 67	NYU A	10	10	10	30	EHM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Guelph Cloze	10	0	0	10	E
Invective Against Swans	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	0	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	0	10	E
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	0	10	E
Mike and Psmith	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	0	0	0	0
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Untitled Keyal Team	0	0	0	0
No Country for Old Quizzers	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	0	10	E
Northwestern	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	0	0	10	E
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	10	10	30	EHM
Rosslyn Academic Team	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
Say It Ain't Zhou	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	0	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Noah Sheidlower	0	0	0	0
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	Licence to Bill	10	0	10	20	EM
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	10	0	0	10	E
Team 7	Stanford A	10	0	0	10	E
Team 8	Stanford B	10	0	0	10	E
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	0	10	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	0	0	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	Lex	10	10	10	30	EHM
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Chicago !A	10	0	0	10	E
UBC B	UBC A	10	0	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Penn State	0	0	10	10	M
UTK	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	0	10	E
WashU	St. Marx	10	0	10	20	EM
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	You Don't Have the Cards	10	0	0	10	E
[Redacted]	W&L+Friend	0	0	0	0
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	Maybe Ever	10	0	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	JHU	10	0	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%