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  1. Eclipse Time!
  2. STEM News Tip: Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  3. Demonstration Highlight: Inertial Reference Frame
  4. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura
  5. Welcome to Fall 2023!
  6. STEM News Tip: A Busy Month on the Moon
  7. Maryland Day 2023
  8. Outreach Events in February are Hot and Cold!
  9. Happy Spring 2023!
  10. STEM News Tip: Coming soon to a sky near you! Comet 2022 E23 (ZTF)
  11. PhysCon 2022!
  12. Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Prof. Michelle Girvan
  13. Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!
  14. Blog Flashback: Birthday of CS Wu
  15. Demo Highlight: Air Table
  16. STEM News Tip: May’s Lunar Eclipse
  17. Demonstration Highlight: Reflecting Telescope Models
  18. STEM News Tip: Prof Sarah Eno elected AAAS Fellow
  19. Demonstration Highlight: Gravitational Lensing Model
  20. STEM News Tip: JWST Deployment
  21. Demonstration Highlight: More Fun with Polarization
  22. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Synthesizer
  23. STEM News Tip: AIP Marks 90th Anniversary
  24. STEM News Tip: JWST Launch Delayed
  25. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnetic Can Smasher
  26. Demonstration Highlight: Refraction
  27. STEM News Tip: Three New Articles In Science Education
  28. Demonstration Highlight: The Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field
  29. Demonstration Highlight: The Tesla Coil, Part Two
  30. STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021
  31. Demonstration Highlight: Tesla Coil, Part 1
  32. Demonstration Highlight: Parallel Plate Capacitor
  33. Demonstration Highlight: Friction on an Inclined Plane
  34. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
  35. Demonstration Highlight: Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
  36. STEM News Tip: Updates on Fall Webinars and Virtual Talks from Scientific Organizations
  37. Demonstration Highlight: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  38. Demonstration Highlight: Double Cone
  39. Demonstration Highlight: Focusing Heat
  40. STEM News Tip: Coming events
  41. On the Physics of Work
  42. Demonstration Highlight: Buoyancy
  43. STEM News Tip: Hurricane Ida
  44. Welcome to Fall 2021!
  45. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Weights
  46. Demonstration Highlight: Electric Fields
  47. STEM News Tip: Donna Hammer wins Board of Regents Award
  48. Demonstration Highlight: Pendula of Different Masses
  49. STEM News Tip: Keep An Eye Out For Meteors This Month!
  50. Demonstration Highlight: Galileo's Pendulum
  51. STEM News Tip: UMD Tech Spin-Offs Highlighted
  52. STEM News Tip: APS Public Engagement Webinars This Week
  53. Demonstration Highlight: Chaotic Pendula
  54. STEM News Tip: AIP Reports on National Survey of High School Physics
  55. Demonstration Highlight: Charged Balloon
  56. STEM News Tip: AIP Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Month
  57. STEM News Tip: Prof. Alicia Kollár Receives NSF Award
  58. Happy 145th birthday to Harriet Brooks
  59. Demonstration Highlight: Hookes Law and SHM
  60. STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program
  61. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  62. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  63. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  64. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  65. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  66. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  67. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  68. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  69. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  70. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  71. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  72. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  73. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  74. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  75. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  76. Happy Graduation!
  77. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  78. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  79. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  80. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  81. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  82. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  83. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  84. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  85. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  86. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  87. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  88. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  89. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  90. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  91. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  92. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  93. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  94. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  95. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  96. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  97. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  98. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  99. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  100. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  101. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  102. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  103. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  104. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  105. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  106. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  107. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  108. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  109. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  110. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  111. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  112. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  113. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  114. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  115. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  116. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  117. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  118. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  119. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  120. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  121. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  122. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  123. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  124. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  125. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  126. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  127. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  128. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  129. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  130. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  131. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  132. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  133. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  134. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  135. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  136. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  137. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  138. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  139. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  140. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  141. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  142. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  143. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  144. The Physics of Bats
  145. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  146. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  147. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  148. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  149. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  150. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  151. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  152. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  153. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  154. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  155. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  156. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  157. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  158. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  159. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  160. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  161. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  162. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  163. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  164. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  165. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  166. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  167. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  168. Remote Teaching Resources
  169. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  170. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  171. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  172. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  173. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  174. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  175. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  176. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  177. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  178. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  179. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  180. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  181. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  182. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  183. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  184. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  185. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  186. How many demonstrations?
  187. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  188. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  189. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  190. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  191. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  192. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  193. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  194. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  195. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  196. Welcome to Spring 2020
  197. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  198. A Heated Discussion In Class
  199. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  200. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  201. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  202. FLIGHT!
  203. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  204. Hot Air Balloon
  205. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  206. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  207. Summer Hiatus
  208. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  209. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  210. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  211. Teatime in Physics
  212. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  213. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  214. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  215. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  216. New Portable Ripple Tank
  217. Irene Joliot-Curie
  218. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  219. Falling into Free Fall
  220. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  221. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  222. Welcome!