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Welcome Spring 2025!

Welcome to 2025! We at the Lecture Demonstration Facility are looking forward to working with you in the spring semester.

We appreciate as much advance notice of demonstrations as you can give; but at a minimum, please remember to order your demonstrations before the order cutoff deadline: For morning classes, before 1PM the previous working day; for afternoon classes, before 4AM the day of the class. Where possible, we appreciate having the orders at least one full working day ahead, to ensure plenty of time to make sure everything is ready for you. As always, we’ll meet with you before your class to go over the demos and make sure everything is ready to be used effectively and safely.

Here's to a great semester!

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