• "Examining the Wigner Distribution Using Dirac Notation," arXiv:0912.2333, 2009. Reprint

• "Bohr Model Calculations for Atoms and Ions," The Chemical Educator, 2007, 12 ,, 243-245. Reprint

• "Hund's Multiplicity Rule Revisited," Journal of Chemical Education, 2007, 84, 358-360. Reprint

• "Illustrating the Superposition Principle with Single-Photon Interference" The Chemical Educator, 2005, 10, 424-426. Reprint.

• "Single-slit Diffraction and the Uncertainty Prinicple," Journal of Chemical Education, 2005, 82, 1210. Reprint

• "Kinetic Energy is Important in the Nanoscale World," The Chemical Educator, 2004, 9, 353-355. Reprint.

• "Computational Chemistry" appears in Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, 4 Vols. J. J. Lagowski, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA , 2004.

• "Using Optical Transforms to Teach Quantum Mechanics," The Chemical Educator, 2004, 9, 12 - 16. With Brian Johnson. Reprint.

• "A Comment on the Vibrational Analysis for C₆₀," Journal of Chemical Education, 2003, 80, 1380. LTE Pre-print.

• "An Alternative Derivation of Gas Pressure Using the Kinetic Theory," The Chemical Educator, 2003, 8, 237. PDF.

• "Calculating Diffraction Patterns," European Journal of Physics, 2003, 24, N1-N3. Pre-print. EJP

• "The Covalent Bond Examined Using the Virial Theorem," The Chemical Educator, 2003, 8, 8-10. PDF

• "Evidence for Quantized Gravitational States of the Neutron," Journal of Chemical Education, 2002, 79, 1404-1406. PDF

• "Polarized Light and Quantum Mechanics: An Optical Analog of the Stern-Gerlach Experiment," The Chemical Educator, 2002, 7, 200-204. With J. M. Brom. PDF

• "Response to Potential-Energy-Only Models," Journal of Chemical Education, 2002, 79, 29-30. LTE. With Roger DeKock. PDF

• "The Covalent Bond in H₂," The Chemical Educator, 2001, 6 (5), 288-290. PDF

• "Comment on 'Bound States of a Uniform Spherical Charge Distribution - Revisited!,'" American Journal of Physics, 2001, 69, 514-515. PDF

• Review of Molecular Mechanics on the PC, by Matthew F. Schlect, Journal of Chemical Education, 2000, 77, 706-707. PDF

• "Misapplication of the Virial Theorem; Journal of Chemical Education, 1999, 76, 605. LTE On-line copy. PDF

• "Atomic Variational Calculations: Hydrogen to Boron," The Chemical Educator, 1999, 4(2), 1-13.

• "A Comment on the Energy Levels of the Lithium Atom," European Journal of Physics, 1999, 20, L1-L2.

• "Electron Momentum Spectroscopy and the Measurement of Orbitals: Interesting Results for Chemists from the American Journal of Physics," Journal of Chemical Education, 1999, 76, 156-158. PDF

• "The Crucial Role of Kinetic Energy in Interpreting Ionization Energies" Journal of Chemical Education, 1998, 75, 537-539. With Roger DeKock. PDF

• "Group Theory with Mathcad", Journal of Chemical Education: Software, Issue 9801MW, (1998). Prospectus: Journal of Chemical Education 75, 127-128, (1998). Abstract: Journal of Chemical Education 75, 644, (1998). Abstract or PDF Abstract.

• "Kinetic Energy and Covalent Bonding in H₂⁺, " The Chemical Educator, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1-14 (1997). PDF

• "Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad for the Macintosh," Journal of Chemical Education: Software, Volume 9C, Number 1, 1997. Print Abstract: Journal of Chemical Education, 74, 1016, (1997). PDF Abstract

• "Numerical Methods for Obtaining Momentum-Space Wavefunctions," Journal of Chemical Education, 74, 605, (1997). PDF

• "Molecular Structures for Azatitanatranes," Organometallics, 16, 163 (1997). With M. Schmidt and M. S. Gordon. PDF

• "Software for Teaching and Using Numerical Methods in Physical Chemistry," appears in Using Computers in Chemistry and Chemical Education, T. J. Zielinski and M. L. Swift, Editors, American Chemical Society Professional Reference Book, ISBN: 0-8412-3465-5; 1997. Co-authored with S. Young and J. Madura. Abstract

• "Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad - Part II," Journal of Chemical Education: Software, Volume 3D, Number 1, 1995. Abstract: Journal of Chemical Education, 72, 327, (1995).

• "An Interactive SCF Calculation," Journal of Chemical Education , 71, 781 (1994). Abstract

• "Quantum Mechanics, Group Theory and C₆₀," Journal of Chemical Education, 71, 464 (1994). Reprint
• "Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad," Journal of Chemical Education: Software, Volume 1D, Number 2, 1993. Abstract: Journal of Chemical Education, 70, 902, (1993).

• "Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum," co-authored with R. DeKock, J. Madura, and J. Casanova. Annual Reviews in Computational Chemistry edited by D. B. Boyd and K. B. Lipkowitz. VCH Publishers, Inc., New York, 1993.

• "Quantum Mechanics Using Mathcad 3.0," Journal of Chemical Education, 69, A240 (1992). Reprint

• "A Hartree SCF Calculation on the Helium Atom," European Journal of Physics, 12, 74 (1991).

• "Direct Numerical Integration of the Radial Equation," American Journal of Physics, 59, 474 (1991). Reprint.

• "Quantum Mechanics with a Spreadsheet," Journal of Chemical Education, 68, A282 (1991). Reprint

• "Numerical Solutions for Schrödinger's Equation: BASIC Programs and LOTUS Templates," Journal of Chemical Education: Software, IIIB, No. 2 (1990). Abstract: Journal of Chemical Education , 67, 770 (1990).

• "A Simple Self-Consistent Field Calculation on Two-electron Systems, " European Journal of Physics, 8, 297 (1987).

• "Exercises in Quantum Mechanics," Journal of Chemical Education , 64, 789 (1987). Software distributed by Project SERAPHIM a National Science Foundation sponsored clearinghouse for instructional microcomputer software in chemistry.

• "The Art of Science," Symposium: A Faculty Journal, Winter 1986, St. John's University. Reprint

• "An Ionic Model for Metallic Bonding," Journal of Chemical Education, 62, 383 (1985). Reprint

• "Four Days in February - 1616," St. John's Magazine, Spring 1985. With R. Spaeth. Reprint

• "An Elementary Development of Mass-Energy Equivalence," American Journal of Physics, 51, 461 (1983). With D. Steck. Reprint.
  Discussed in Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy, by Max Jammer.

• "The Linear Variation Method in One-Dimension," Journal of Chemical Education, 59, 773 (1982).

• "Using Microcomputer Graphics to Teach Quantum Theory," Journal of Chemical Education, 58, 553 (1981).

• "Roothaan's Method in One-Dimension," Journal of Chemical Education, 58, 618 (1981). With D. K. Harriss. Reprint

• "A Simple Hartree SCF Calculation on a One-Dimensional Model of the He Atom," Journal of Chemical Education, 57, 491 (1980). With D.K. Harriss. Reprint

• "Self-Consistent Field Calculation on LiH for Undergraduates," American Journal of Physics, 48, 439 (1980). With D. K. Harriss. This paper also appears in Computational Techniques in Physics, by P. J. MacKeown and D. J. Newman, The Institute of Physics, Bristol, England, 1987. Reprint

• "Simple Kinetic Derivations of Thermodynamic Relations" Unpublished manuscript co-authored with Henry A. Bent. Reprint

• "Thermodynamics and Kinetics: Simple Derivations of the Extramural Relations of Thermodynamics Using Arrhenius's Rate-Constant Law" Unpublished manuscript co-authored with Henry A. Bent. Reprint

• "Series Solutions and the Variational Principle," Journal of Chemical Physics, 70, 1151 (1979). With D. K. Harriss.

• "Simple Calculation for the Lattice Energy of LiH," Journal of Chemical Education, 54, 555 (1977). Reprint

• "Charge Cloud Study of Atomic and Molecular Structure," American Journal of Physics, 44, 56 (1976). With Peter Kroger. Reprint

• "Colligative Properties," Journal of Chemical Education, 50, 490 (1973). Reprint

• "The Stability of the Hydrogen Atom," Journal of Chemical Education, 50, 550 (1973). Reprint

• "Single-Crystal Magnetic-Susceptibility Study of One-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Interactions in CsCuCl₃," Journal of Chemical Physics, 53, 1789 (1970). With B.C. Gerstein.

• "Thermal and Magnetic Study of Bonding in CsCuCl₃," Journal of Chemical Physics, 50, 758 (1969). With B.C. Gerstein.

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