Follow

LecDem Blog

PhysCon 2022!

 This fall, UMD Physics played host to PhysCon 2022, the 2022 Physics Congress, a grand gathering of undergraduate physics students from around the country. Our tours, presentations, and demonstrations were a big hit!  

Our campus hosted tours of laboratory facilities, panel presentations on student life, and even demonstrations over lunch! Other parts of the congress were held in downtown DC, including presentations by our own Professors Gates and Mather. A grand time was had by all.

 

Read more:

 

More Articles ...

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