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Welcome to Fall 2025!

Welcome to Fall 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, orders must be in before 1PM the previous working day.
  • For afternoon classes, order must be in before 4AM the day of the class.

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. 

Here’s to another great semester at UMD Physics!

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  2. STEM News Tip: PT profiles women in history of quantum
  3. STEM News Tip: Washington Post Summer Skywatching Guide
  4. STEM News Tip: Vera Rubin Observatory First Look
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  6. Physics Graduate Student Symposium 2025
  7. Welcome Spring 2025!
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  9. Demonstration Highlight: Ring and Disc on Inclined Plane
  10. STEM News Tip: Snow Flakes!
  11. STEM News Tip: Space Missions To Watch In 2025
  12. STEM News Tip: 2024 News in Review
  13. Demonstration Highlight: High & Low Candles in a Cylinder
  14. STEM News Tip: Aurora over Maryland
  15. Physics is Phun September 2024
  16. STEM News Tip: Asteroid Today
  17. Eclipse Time!
  18. STEM News Tip: Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  19. Demonstration Highlight: Inertial Reference Frame
  20. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura
  21. Welcome to Fall 2023!
  22. STEM News Tip: A Busy Month on the Moon
  23. Maryland Day 2023
  24. Outreach Events in February are Hot and Cold!
  25. Happy Spring 2023!
  26. STEM News Tip: Coming soon to a sky near you! Comet 2022 E23 (ZTF)
  27. PhysCon 2022!
  28. Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Prof. Michelle Girvan
  29. Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!
  30. Blog Flashback: Birthday of CS Wu
  31. Demo Highlight: Air Table
  32. STEM News Tip: May’s Lunar Eclipse
  33. Demonstration Highlight: Reflecting Telescope Models
  34. STEM News Tip: Prof Sarah Eno elected AAAS Fellow
  35. Demonstration Highlight: Gravitational Lensing Model
  36. STEM News Tip: JWST Deployment
  37. Demonstration Highlight: More Fun with Polarization
  38. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Synthesizer
  39. STEM News Tip: AIP Marks 90th Anniversary
  40. STEM News Tip: JWST Launch Delayed
  41. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnetic Can Smasher
  42. Demonstration Highlight: Refraction
  43. STEM News Tip: Three New Articles In Science Education
  44. Demonstration Highlight: The Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field
  45. Demonstration Highlight: The Tesla Coil, Part Two
  46. STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021
  47. Demonstration Highlight: Tesla Coil, Part 1
  48. Demonstration Highlight: Parallel Plate Capacitor
  49. Demonstration Highlight: Friction on an Inclined Plane
  50. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
  51. Demonstration Highlight: Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
  52. STEM News Tip: Updates on Fall Webinars and Virtual Talks from Scientific Organizations
  53. Demonstration Highlight: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  54. Demonstration Highlight: Double Cone
  55. Demonstration Highlight: Focusing Heat
  56. STEM News Tip: Coming events
  57. On the Physics of Work
  58. Demonstration Highlight: Buoyancy
  59. STEM News Tip: Hurricane Ida
  60. Welcome to Fall 2021!
  61. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Weights
  62. Demonstration Highlight: Electric Fields
  63. STEM News Tip: Donna Hammer wins Board of Regents Award
  64. Demonstration Highlight: Pendula of Different Masses
  65. STEM News Tip: Keep An Eye Out For Meteors This Month!
  66. Demonstration Highlight: Galileo's Pendulum
  67. STEM News Tip: UMD Tech Spin-Offs Highlighted
  68. STEM News Tip: APS Public Engagement Webinars This Week
  69. Demonstration Highlight: Chaotic Pendula
  70. STEM News Tip: AIP Reports on National Survey of High School Physics
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  72. STEM News Tip: AIP Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Month
  73. STEM News Tip: Prof. Alicia Kollár Receives NSF Award
  74. Happy 145th birthday to Harriet Brooks
  75. Demonstration Highlight: Hookes Law and SHM
  76. STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program
  77. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  78. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  79. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  80. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  81. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  82. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  83. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  84. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  85. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  86. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  87. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  88. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  89. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  90. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  91. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  92. Happy Graduation!
  93. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  94. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  95. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  96. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  97. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  98. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  99. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  100. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  101. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  102. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  103. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  104. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  105. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  106. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  107. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  108. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  109. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  110. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  111. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  112. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  113. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  114. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  115. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  116. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  117. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  118. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  119. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  120. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  121. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
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  126. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  127. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  128. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
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  130. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  131. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
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  158. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
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  161. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  162. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
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  166. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  167. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  168. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
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  170. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
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  172. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
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  179. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
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  181. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
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  185. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
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  189. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  190. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  191. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
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  193. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  194. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  195. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
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  197. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  198. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  199. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  200. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  201. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
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  204. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  205. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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  207. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  208. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  209. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
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  211. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  212. Welcome to Spring 2020
  213. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  214. A Heated Discussion In Class
  215. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  216. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  217. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  218. FLIGHT!
  219. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  220. Hot Air Balloon
  221. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  222. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  223. Summer Hiatus
  224. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  225. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  226. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  227. Teatime in Physics
  228. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  229. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  230. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  231. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  232. New Portable Ripple Tank
  233. Irene Joliot-Curie
  234. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  235. Falling into Free Fall
  236. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  237. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  238. Welcome!