Trent Trivia
Trent's crest features two main symbols: the sword of Samuel de Champlain and the water of this River
Otanabee
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry
Non-Euclidean
Carleton University
John Talboom
Let's touch this, the bottom side of a plane figure
The Base
This common 4-letter word has a more specific meaning in physics: change in kinetic energy
Work
This professional sports team donated a baseball diamond to be used by our campus
Toronto Blue Jays
Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device
An Abacus
Queens University
Wesley Burr
This 3-letter word is a piece of the circumference of a circle
Arc
Seems like you & I are on the same this, a property of both light & sound denoted by the Greek letter lambda
Wavelength
He is currently the only math professor at Trent to have attended Trent as a student
Kenzu
In calculus this is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function, so for a constant function (no change) it's 0
The Derivative
Dartmouth University
Stefan Bilaniuk
A triangle with 2 equal sides is this type, from the Greek for "equal legged"
Isosceles
The 1997 prize was awarded for using these intense beams to cool & trap atoms
Lasers
She went to Harvard!
When the NBA's Steph Curry puts up a 3-point shot, this point, the apex of a parabola, is about 16 feet above the floor
The Vertex
Auburn University
Aras
For 4, this math function is 4 times 3 times 2 times 1
4 times 3 times 2 times 1
In physics it's the distance from the center line of a wave to the top of the crest
Amplitude
She did her Phd in Scotland!
Wenying Feng
Multiplicative inverse is a synonym for this math term
Reciprocal
University of Toronto
Marco Pollanen
"Up" goes before a mathematical group to make a word meaning "angry"
Upset
L, meaning the number of this elementary particle that includes electrons, is constant in every reaction
The Lepton