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Round 3: Tossup 6

This physicist and an alphabetically-later collaborator developed a set of electrodynamic equations that set an upper limit on the self-energy of a point charge to avoid divergences in Maxwell electrodynamics. This physicist developed a coordinate chart to describe the worldlines of Langevin observers on a rotating disk, which must have constant orthogonal spacetime distance to (10[1])satisfy this physicist’s relativistic formulation of rigidity. (10[1])While (10[1])at Göttingen, this physicist and Heisenberg developed the matrix representation of quantum physics. This physicist proposed that the squared magnitude of a wave function equals the probability of (-5[1])finding a particle. For 10 points, name this German physicist who names an approximation (-5[1])that fixes (10[1])nuclei in space along with J. Robert Oppenheimer. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Max Born [accept Born rule or Born rigidity or Born coordinates or Born–Infeld model or Born–Oppenheimer approximation]
<Toronto A, Physics> | Packet-D_CWRU-A_Iowa_Toronto-A_WashU-A
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Adam FineChicago AWashU B5410
Yash MandaviaIllinois BIndiana A6110
Andrew WangIllinois AMissouri S&T6210
Samarth RamChicago CChicago B90-5
Benny FeldmanChicago DMissouri104-5
Jiping FangIllinois CIndiana B10610
Ezra SantosChicago BChicago C11510
Owen ArnesonMissouriChicago D11510

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California2025-02-01✓3100%67%101.67
Florida2025-02-01✓367%0%107.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓683%50%114.40
Midwest2025-02-01✓6100%33%85.50
North2025-02-01✓3100%33%107.00
Northeast2025-02-01✓5100%20%96.60
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01✓2100%50%103.50
South Central2025-02-01✓2100%50%102.50
Southeast2025-02-01✓450%50%114.50
UK2025-02-01✓10100%20%91.70
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓888%25%89.14
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓333%33%104.00