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The Maryland STEM Festival returns this month!
Every year, we here at the University of Maryland Physics Department host an outreach event as part of the Maryland STEM Festival, a statewide event celebrating the sciences. This year, we’re hosting virtual workshops on October 24th&25th to build and test a Vortex Generator physics demonstration. Advance registration is required; read more here at the Maryland STEM Festival website!
The Vortex Generator is a fun way to see some exciting phenomena in fluid dynamics; you may have seen it in the past at our Physics of Quidditch summer program or the January 2020 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.
Be sure to check out all of the other exciting events around the state throughout the month at https://marylandstemfestival.org/.
Last year, Maryland Physics hosted the Maryland STEM Festival event: FLIGHT! Read more about it here.
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- Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
- STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
- Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
- STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
- Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
- STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
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- Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
- Remote Teaching Resources
- STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
- Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
- STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
- Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
- STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
- STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
- STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
- The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
- Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
- STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
- STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
- Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
- STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
- STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
- Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
- STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
- STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
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- STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
- STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
- Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
- Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
- Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
- Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
- Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
- New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
- Welcome to Spring 2020
- Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
- A Heated Discussion In Class
- The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
- Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
- Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
- FLIGHT!
- Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
- Hot Air Balloon
- Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
- Welcome to Fall 2019!
- Summer Hiatus
- Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
- Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
- On the Choosing of Demonstrations
- Teatime in Physics
- Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
- Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
- Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
- Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
- New Portable Ripple Tank
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
- Falling into Free Fall
- Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
- Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
- Welcome!