Packet 8: Tossup 15

A formalism developed by this scientist was repopularized in the English-speaking world by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s series of 1946 papers on radiative transfer. Waves that reflect off two sides of a boundary between media must differ in phase by 180 degrees according to one of this scientist’s namesake relations. 4-by-4 rotation matrices act (-5[1])on vectors named for this scientist in Mueller (15[2])calculus. (15[2]-5[2])Four (-5[1])parameters (-5[1])denoted (15[1])(*) I, Q, (10[2])U, and V (-5[1])make up vectors (-5[1])named for this scientist (10[2]-5[2])that describe light with any degree (10[1])of polarization, (10[1]-5[1])unlike (10[2])Jones vectors. (10[1])This scientist found that fluorescent light has less energy than absorbed light; Raman spectroscopy (10[1])observes that “shift” (10[1])named (10[1])for (10[1])him. (10[2])For 10 points, name this (10[1])Irish physicist (10[2]-5[1])who built on (10[1])a theory of viscous fluid flow developed (10[2])by Claude-Louis Navier. (10[3])■END■ (10[14])

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