Packet 2: Tossup 2

Claude Pouillet inspired the setup of this non-Italian scientist’s pioneering experiment to measure the speed of nerve impulses in the sciatic nerve of frog legs. The integral form of the Schrödinger equation can be obtained using the Green’s function of this scientist’s namesake equation, which equals “e to the ikr (15[1])over r.” (15[1]-5[1])This scientist (-5[1])invented (15[1])a device (-5[2])made of two wire (-5[1])loops with equal radius and (15[1])separation, (-5[1])which (15[1])creates (15[1]-5[2])a (15[1])near-uniform (15[1])(*) magnetic (10[1])field. (10[2])The wave equation (10[1])for the electric field reduces to this scientist’s namesake equation, (-5[1])which states “del squared f plus k squared f equals zero.” A quantity named for this scientist equals minus kT times log Z, (10[1]-5[3])or (10[1])U minus TS. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])the useful (10[1])work (-5[1])that can (10[1])be extracted (10[4])at (10[1])constant (10[1])temperature and volume (10[1])is what (10[1]-5[1])German scientist’s (10[1])“free energy”? ■END■ (10[11]0[4])

ANSWER: Hermann von Helmholtz [accept Helmholtz equation; accept Helmholtz coils; Helmholtz free energy]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Neil GurramConstans Constantius and Constantine Jr.Team 74915
Alex AkridgeIndiana1000000 Delinquents5115
Iain CarpenterPenn Statehttps://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png51-5
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford A53-5
Joseph KrolA Neg of Beauty is a Joy ForeverC R A B S5415
Jim FanUNC CharityMaryland F♯ A♯ ∞56-5
Delia CropperDielectrical MaterialismH Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs56-5
Richard NiuHabitat 67Shipping Down from Ballston60-5
Billy BusseThe Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals[Redacted]6515
Max Fitz-JamesThe Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the EasyVacuous Tortoise66-5
Kai SmithShipping Down from BallstonHabitat 676715
Kevin WangCapital One in the Twenty-First CenturyMiddlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club6815
Shahar SchwartzNot Old! (Old)Team 868-5
Adil HaiderWilliam of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student cardI'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined68-5
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Russell NipUBC AAbbas I founded the Abbasids11710
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Cole HartungRosslyn Academic TeamMike and Psmith13410
OphirMaryland F♯ A♯ ∞UNC Charity13410
John John GrogerWashUfour high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B13410
Michael CoatesMaybe EverSt. Marx13410
Ewan MacAulayH Charlson's Washed Up ScrubsDielectrical Materialism13410
Michael MaysNo Country for Old QuizzersDour Straits13410
Rachel BenthamVacuous TortoiseThe Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy13410
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Stephen LiuTeam 8Not Old! (Old)13410
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Tai BelkeThe Unbearable Heaviness of History PlayersUBC B1340
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TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%25%50%109.75
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026250%0%50%117.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%25%50%110.25
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026367%33%33%96.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025475%0%25%89.67
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20251100%0%0%122.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%0%40%129.60
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%33%0%84.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%25%75%114.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%33%112.00
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%20%20%99.60
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/20252100%50%0%91.50