> One last point. Having played for a few years, I have heard > Stern-Gerlach and Davisson-Germer come up as both tossup and bonus > answers and have a dim recognition of the other experiment. This does > not mean that those three experiments are legitimate subject matter > for the same Penn Bowl bonus. As a non-graduate student in physics, I learned about all three of those experiments in my first semester of QM. I'll concede that neither Davisson-Germer nor Franck-Hertz are particularly obvious, but any 3rd year physics student ought to be able to pull at least one of those. Having played at the Cardinal Classic mirror, I was actually pleasantly surprised by the question quality for the most part. There were no hoses that I remember and as far as I could tell the questions were well-written and accurate in their clues. Several packets did have disproportionately difficult bonuses for some reason (internal workings of the EU constitution, anyone?) but overall I found little cause for complaint, though I did get the feel that the literature distribution was slightly skewed in favor of Latin American authors as mentioned before. That, however, might just be the popular thing to write about and not really all that bad in and of itself. Jerry
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