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It appears that my attempts to produce a quality set of physics questions has ended in disaster once again. I chose to help Eric and Gautam out because it seemed that no one better wanted to. I believed I could do it based on Seth's and Jerry's suggestions from a year ago and and an improved databas...

Since I have the set of blind tossups I wrote in front of me: Physics Tossups Thevenin's Theorem Liouville's Theorem Einstein's Field Equations neutrino oscillations dispersion Aharonov-Bohm effect albedo Type II Superconductivity Langmuir Waves ferrimagnetism (extra) Lyman effect (extra) Auger effe...

I wrote the following physics tossups for ACF Nationals: Glashow-Weinberg-Salam interferometer Reissner-Nordstrom vorticity Wigner Energy Ranking these from most difficult (in my mind) to least, they would have been: Wigner, Reissner-Nordstrom, Glashow-Weinberg-Salam, interferometer and vorticity. M...

In my opinion, if you're going to write physical geography questions, don't write them on specific mountains, rivers, lakes, etc; rather, write them on non-specific physical features of the Earth. Careful; if we put this into practice, especially along the lines of underlying processes then what we...

By the way: While I know "geography" is an academic discipline, I can't imagine that it has much in common with the tossups on rivers, mountains, and countries which fill up the geography distribution at qb tournaments. You're exactly right here. You're also right that it doesn't need to be. In uni...

My own opinions stand thus: I do not believe that there is a problem with geography remaining a part of the ACF distribution. 1/1, or 0/1 or 1/0 is fine. To answer my own questions: N1: I believe that geography is important as an academic discipline because it attempts to understand patterns of huma...

Greetings, I've done a search of these fora for geography discussion, and can't seem to find much actual discussion on the boards specific to the unimportance or importance of the subject in collegiate QB. I've heard a lot of groaning at tournaments (especially NAQT) about how much of it there is, b...

The Hoover Invitational Tournament (ASCA format) was held today at Hoover High School in Alabama. Here are brief results (for those who don't/can't read the ASCA website): Varsity Division (3 pools, round robin, followed by playoffs) 1: ASFA 2: Brindlee Mountain 3: Indian Springs Also in the top 5, ...

Since people are talking about various singles formats, and my history singles idea has been getting a much cooler reception than I anticipated, I thought I'd try posting this poll. I don't mean it to be binding for myself or anyone else, I'll likely simply continue cranking out history questions be...

setht wrote: History singles: Is this happening? I was half-expecting to get this done by this summer, but much of my effort has been directed other projects, such as trying (and as yet failing) to gain my humble masters degree while not in-residence. And, since 1: at the time I was deciding yea or ...

Well, for a lot of the teams that declined, there's a closer national tournament (being held at Maryland a week later). Also, $195 may neither be here nor there after you've paid airfare, but since a lot of schools tend to fund entry fees, but not travel, and entry fees are typically on the order of...