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Sample concepts

• Write the formula for Pearson correlation coefficient
• What Bose-Einstein condensation demonstrates — macroscopic quantum coherence at ultralow temperatures
• What vega measures — an option's sensitivity to a 1% change in implied volatility
• What Kuhn's paradigm shifts describe — science doesn't progress linearly but through revolutions
• What Allen Ginsberg's Howl opens with — 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness'
• Light from the Sun takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth
• Shannon's channel capacity: C = B log₂(1 + S/N) bits per second
• What the Standard Model's particle content is — 6 quarks, 6 leptons, 4 gauge bosons, 1 Higgs
• What the 1973 oil crisis caused — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices, triggering stagflation
• What Aristotle means by eudaimonia — human flourishing through the exercise of virtue, not mere happiness
• What One Hundred Years of Solitude maps — seven generations of the Buendía family as Latin American history in microcosm
• Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, and nine brains — one central, eight in their arms

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