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STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021

Physics Today magazine has published a series of articles in honor of #BlackInPhysics Week. They explore issues of anti-blackness and racism, burnout and mental health, and community building.

 

 

 

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