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LecDem Blog

Welcome to Fall 2026!

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Published: 01 September 2026
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Welcome to Fall 2026! Here in Lecture Demonstration we’re looking forward to helping you with demonstrations for your classes this semester. You can explore the demonstration collection and order demonstrations here on our website, and we're happy to answer any questions you may have.

Please remember to order your demonstrations before the order form cutoff deadlines:

For morning classes, orders must be in before 1PM the previous working day.

For afternoon classes, order must be in before 4AM the day of the class.

When possible, we appreciate receiving demo orders a minimum of one full working day ahead, to ensure plenty of time for preparation. As always, we’ll meet with you before your class to answer questions, explain safety measures, and review demonstration procedures. For help choosing demos or questions regarding demo requests or requirements, please contact us by email or phone.

Here’s to another great semester at UMD Physics!

  1. STEM News Tip: Lunar Eclipse this week
  2. STEM News Tip: Solar Eclipse Time (though mostly elsewhere!)
  3. From the Blog to the Moon
  4. Spooky Science 2025
  5. Welcome to Fall 2025!
  6. Flavor Physics AMA on Reddit
  7. STEM News Tip: PT profiles women in history of quantum
  8. STEM News Tip: Washington Post Summer Skywatching Guide
  9. STEM News Tip: Vera Rubin Observatory First Look
  10. Physics Undergraduate Research Showcase 2025
  11. Physics Graduate Student Symposium 2025
  12. Welcome Spring 2025!
  13. STEM News Tip: Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in the News
  14. Demonstration Highlight: Ring and Disc on Inclined Plane
  15. STEM News Tip: Snow Flakes!
  16. STEM News Tip: Space Missions To Watch In 2025
  17. STEM News Tip: 2024 News in Review
  18. Demonstration Highlight: High & Low Candles in a Cylinder
  19. STEM News Tip: Aurora over Maryland
  20. Physics is Phun September 2024
  21. STEM News Tip: Asteroid Today
  22. Eclipse Time!
  23. STEM News Tip: Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  24. Demonstration Highlight: Inertial Reference Frame
  25. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura
  26. Welcome to Fall 2023!
  27. STEM News Tip: A Busy Month on the Moon
  28. Maryland Day 2023
  29. Outreach Events in February are Hot and Cold!
  30. Happy Spring 2023!
  31. STEM News Tip: Coming soon to a sky near you! Comet 2022 E23 (ZTF)
  32. PhysCon 2022!
  33. Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Prof. Michelle Girvan
  34. Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!
  35. Blog Flashback: Birthday of CS Wu
  36. Demo Highlight: Air Table
  37. STEM News Tip: May’s Lunar Eclipse
  38. Demonstration Highlight: Reflecting Telescope Models
  39. STEM News Tip: Prof Sarah Eno elected AAAS Fellow
  40. Demonstration Highlight: Gravitational Lensing Model
  41. STEM News Tip: JWST Deployment
  42. Demonstration Highlight: More Fun with Polarization
  43. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Synthesizer
  44. STEM News Tip: AIP Marks 90th Anniversary
  45. STEM News Tip: JWST Launch Delayed
  46. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnetic Can Smasher
  47. Demonstration Highlight: Refraction
  48. STEM News Tip: Three New Articles In Science Education
  49. Demonstration Highlight: The Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field
  50. Demonstration Highlight: The Tesla Coil, Part Two
  51. STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021
  52. Demonstration Highlight: Tesla Coil, Part 1
  53. Demonstration Highlight: Parallel Plate Capacitor
  54. Demonstration Highlight: Friction on an Inclined Plane
  55. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
  56. Demonstration Highlight: Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
  57. STEM News Tip: Updates on Fall Webinars and Virtual Talks from Scientific Organizations
  58. Demonstration Highlight: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  59. Demonstration Highlight: Double Cone
  60. Demonstration Highlight: Focusing Heat
  61. STEM News Tip: Coming events
  62. On the Physics of Work
  63. Demonstration Highlight: Buoyancy
  64. STEM News Tip: Hurricane Ida
  65. Welcome to Fall 2021!
  66. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Weights
  67. Demonstration Highlight: Electric Fields
  68. STEM News Tip: Donna Hammer wins Board of Regents Award
  69. Demonstration Highlight: Pendula of Different Masses
  70. STEM News Tip: Keep An Eye Out For Meteors This Month!
  71. Demonstration Highlight: Galileo's Pendulum
  72. STEM News Tip: UMD Tech Spin-Offs Highlighted
  73. STEM News Tip: APS Public Engagement Webinars This Week
  74. Demonstration Highlight: Chaotic Pendula
  75. STEM News Tip: AIP Reports on National Survey of High School Physics
  76. Demonstration Highlight: Charged Balloon
  77. STEM News Tip: AIP Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Month
  78. STEM News Tip: Prof. Alicia Kollár Receives NSF Award
  79. Happy 145th birthday to Harriet Brooks
  80. Demonstration Highlight: Hookes Law and SHM
  81. STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program
  82. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  83. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  84. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  85. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  86. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  87. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  88. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  89. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  90. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  91. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  92. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  93. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  94. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  95. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  96. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  97. Happy Graduation!
  98. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  99. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  100. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  101. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  102. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  103. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  104. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  105. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  106. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  107. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  108. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  109. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  110. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  111. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  112. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  113. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  114. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  115. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  116. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  117. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  118. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  119. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  120. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  121. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  122. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  123. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  124. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  125. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  126. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  127. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  128. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  129. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  130. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  131. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  132. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  133. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  134. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  135. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  136. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  137. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  138. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  139. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  140. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  141. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  142. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  143. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  144. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  145. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  146. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  147. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  148. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  149. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  150. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  151. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  152. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  153. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  154. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  155. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  156. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  157. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  158. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  159. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  160. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  161. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  162. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  163. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  164. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  165. The Physics of Bats
  166. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  167. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  168. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  169. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
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  172. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
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  175. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
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  177. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
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  180. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  181. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  182. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  183. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  184. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  185. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  186. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  187. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  188. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  189. Remote Teaching Resources
  190. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  191. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  192. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  193. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  194. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  195. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  196. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  197. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  198. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  199. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  200. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  201. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  202. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  203. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  204. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  205. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  206. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  207. How many demonstrations?
  208. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  209. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  210. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  211. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  212. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  213. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  214. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  215. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  216. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  217. Welcome to Spring 2020
  218. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  219. A Heated Discussion In Class
  220. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  221. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  222. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  223. FLIGHT!
  224. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  225. Hot Air Balloon
  226. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  227. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  228. Summer Hiatus
  229. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  230. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  231. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  232. Teatime in Physics
  233. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  234. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  235. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  236. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  237. New Portable Ripple Tank
  238. Irene Joliot-Curie
  239. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  240. Falling into Free Fall
  241. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  242. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  243. Welcome!

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