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  1. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  2. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  3. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  4. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  5. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  6. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  7. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  8. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  9. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  10. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  11. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  12. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  13. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  14. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  15. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  16. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  17. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  18. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  19. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  20. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  21. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  22. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  23. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  24. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  25. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  26. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  27. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  28. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  29. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  30. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  31. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  32. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  33. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  34. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  35. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  36. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  37. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  38. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  39. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  40. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  41. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  42. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  43. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  44. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  45. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  46. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  47. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  48. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  49. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  50. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  51. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  52. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  53. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  54. The Physics of Bats
  55. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  56. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  57. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  58. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  59. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  60. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  61. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  62. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  63. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  64. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  65. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  66. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  67. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  68. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  69. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  70. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  71. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  72. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  73. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  74. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  75. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  76. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  77. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  78. Remote Teaching Resources
  79. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  80. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  81. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  82. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  83. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  84. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  85. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  86. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  87. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  88. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  89. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  90. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  91. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  92. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  93. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  94. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  95. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  96. How many demonstrations?
  97. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  98. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  99. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  100. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  101. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  102. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  103. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  104. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  105. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  106. Welcome to Spring 2020
  107. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  108. A Heated Discussion In Class
  109. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  110. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  111. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  112. FLIGHT!
  113. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  114. Hot Air Balloon
  115. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  116. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  117. Summer Hiatus
  118. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  119. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  120. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  121. Teatime in Physics
  122. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  123. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  124. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  125. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  126. New Portable Ripple Tank
  127. Irene Joliot-Curie
  128. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  129. Falling into Free Fall
  130. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  131. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  132. Welcome!