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Welcome to Fall 2021!

Welcome to Fall 2021 at UMD Physics!

The Lecture-Demonstration Facility is off to a running start, and we look forward to working with you for your demonstration needs this semester.

Be sure to explore our new online resources as well, including the demonstration videos channel, LecDem blog, and the directory of simulations.

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