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Happy Spring 2023!

Happy 2023! Welcome to the spring semester at UMD Physics!

The Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility is here to fulfill your classroom demonstration needs this semester. We’re looking forward to an exciting semester!

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.

We have many events coming up this spring, including Physics is Phun, Physics Discovery Day, and Maryland Day; watch our website for news!

 

 

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