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Just a quick bit of news: Due to an unexpected software change outside of our control, many of the links in past blog posts are broken, and some image alt text may have been lost as well. We are looking into how to fix this as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, consider celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing with https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ , where you can listen to audio from the mission. And check out the links at demonstration L2-44 to read about how UMD was part of the mission!

 

 

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

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