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Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!

 

We at the Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility look forward to working with you for your demonstration needs this semester, to help make your physics classes engaging and informative.

Be sure to explore our new online resources as well, including the demonstration videos channel, LecDem blog, and the directory of simulations. Keep an eye out for new material to come!

If you have any questions about finding the right demonstrations or other resources for your class, access to the order form, or anything else we can help with, be sure to call or email.

Please remember to order your demonstrations before the cutoff deadline for the order form system: 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.

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