Mario Belloni

Mario Belloni Davidson College

P.O. Box 561, 306 Pine Road Department of Physics

Davidson, North Carolina 28036 P.O. Box 6910

Home: (704) 895-9158 Davidson, North Carolina 28035-6910

Office: (704) 894-2320 mabelloni@davidson.edu

Degrees

1989-1997: Doctoral degree in Physics, University of Connecticut.

1988-1989: Master's degree in Physics, University of Connecticut.

1983-1987: Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Economics, University of California at Berkeley.

Teaching Experience

August 2005-present: Associate Professor of Physics at Davidson College. I have taught the algebra-based (Physics 120 and 220) introductory physics courses and laboratories and the intermediate-level course in classical mechanics (Physics 330). I currently serve on the Academic Computing Committee (2006-present) and have served on the College’s SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation “Depth” Committee (2005-2007) and served on the Advisory Group for the search for a new Director of Grants and Contracts (2005).

August 1999-July 2005: Assistant Professor of Physics at Davidson College. I have taught the algebra-based (Physics 120) and calculus-based (Physics 130) introductory physics courses and laboratories, the intermediate-level courses in mathematical methods (Physics 201), classical mechanics (Physics 330), electromagnetic theory (Physics 350), theoretical astrophysics (Physics 410), and quantum mechanics (Physics 360), and the advanced course in quantum mechanics (Physics 460). I have also taught independent study (Physics 396) and independent research (Physics 496) courses in my theoretical research area. My teaching philosophy is based on the fact that research into the teaching and learning of physics shows that students learn best when they actively participate in the learning process. In order to actively engage students, I have been teaching with the Socratic Method and the physics-education-research-based teaching innovation Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) in all my courses. My Physics 120 course and my teaching methods were profiled in the Syllabus column of the February 16, 2001 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. I have twice rewritten of all of the laboratory experiments and the laboratory manual (hardcopy and WWW: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Course_Material/Py120L/Py120L.html) for the Physics 120/130 courses. The most recent rewrite coincided with a major purchase of new laboratory computers, interfaces, and digital and analog sensors. I have also taught class meetings of modern physics (Physics 320) in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003, and German 100W (2004) and Religion 410 (2001 and 2004), speaking about topics in my research specialty of theoretical particle physics and quantum mechanics. I am also the Webmaster for departmental Web pages (1999-present), have been the departmental seminar organizer (1999-2001), served on several faculty search committees (2000, 2000, 2003, 2004), and served on the College’s Campus and Religious Life (2000-2003), Executive (2003-2005), and Biohazards (2004-2005) committees.

1998-1999: Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Davidson College. In the fall, I taught the algebra-based introductory physics course and four introductory (calculus-based and algebra-based) laboratories. In the spring, I taught the algebra-based introductory physics course and labs and also taught the junior-level course in electromagnetism. I organized the purchase of new digital and analog sensors for the introductory physics labs. I also served on a faculty search committee.

1997-1998: Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Eckerd College. I taught both semesters of the introductory physics with calculus course (lecture and laboratory) to science majors. I extensively used computers in the lab and lecture. I wrote a new lab utilizing computer simulations of electric and magnetic field lines. I taught both semesters of the junior-/senior-level course in quantum mechanics. I also designed and taught a new course for non-science majors, “The Evolving World-View of Science,” which stressed scientific methodology and recent developments in modern physics. I was a member of the undergraduate thesis committee of two senior physics majors and I supervised an independent study, “Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics,” during the Winter Term.

1997 and 1996: Instructor, Kids Are Scientists, Too (KAST) Program at the University of Connecticut. I taught physics and astronomy to 4-6th and 7-9th graders. I redesigned and built an experiment, led the Web-based astronomy module, used computers to teach data analysis, and was involved in curriculum development.

1996, 1988-1991: Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Connecticut. I taught the laboratory sections of the introductory physics course for engineers and physics majors.

Research Experience

August 1999-present: Starting at Davidson College, I have established a theoretical research program involving undergraduates. This research program is in the area of theoretical and computational quantum mechanics as these topics are readily accessible to undergraduates. I have successfully engaged eight students in my quantum-mechanics research program. I have received a Research Corporation grant to support this research, originally focusing on supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY QM). In addition, I have engaged students in one-, two-, and three-dimensional quantum-mechanics research focusing on the time development of wave packets. We have three state-of-the-art computer workstations to support this research. In addition to working with undergraduates at Davidson, I have been working with Richard Robinett and Michael Doncheski of Pennsylvania State University studying fundamental quantum-mechanical systems.

August 1999-present: Working with Wolfgang Christian, we have established an extremely successful program in physics education research and development using the class of Java applets known as Physlets. We are an award-winning, nationally and internationally recognized authority in the authoring, design, and effective use of interactive curricular materials. We have authored over 1000 Physlet-based exercises from introductory physics to advanced quantum mechanics. Much of the material we have written appears on the peer-reviewed MERLOT Web site, on the iLumina and ComPADRE NSF digital libraries, and on the Companion Web sites to several Prentice Hall texts. I have co-authored seven books: Multi-Representational Mechanics (in Hebrew), Physik mit Physlets, Fizika s Fizleti: Interaktivne predstavitve in raziskave za uvod v fiziko, Physlet^® Quantum Physics: An Interactive Introduction, Fislets: Enseñanza de la Física con Material Interactivo, Physlet^® Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics and Physlets: Teaching with Interactive Curricular Material. Wolfgang and I have also received a 2002 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources and also the paper, “Physlets for Quantum Mechanics,” Comp. Sci. Eng. 5, 90-96 (2003), was deemed “Best Education Article” in Computing in Science and Engineering. This work has been supported by Associated College of the South (ACS) Teaching with Technology Fellowships and also by the National Science Foundation.

1990-1997: Research Assistant with Professor Kurt Haller at the University of Connecticut. We constructed coherent states and operator-valued gauge-invariant fields that implement Gauss's law in QCD. The purpose of this work is to represent QCD in terms of gauge-invariant quark and gluon fields which may lead to an understanding of confinement.

1989-1990: Research Assistant with Professor Fred Lipshultz and Professor John Tanaka at the University of Connecticut. We studied a technique developed to measure charges in insulators and suggested how this technique can be used in undergraduate experiments.

Grants Received

July 2005: $450,000, National Science Foundation’s CCLI-EMD program (DUE-0442581) for the proposal, “OPTIC: Open Physics Technology for Interactive Curricula.” I am co-PI on this grant with Wolfgang Christian as PI.

May 2005: $2,500, Associated Colleges of the South, Teaching with Technology Fellowship with Wolfgang Christian. Summer fellowship for the project, “Open Source Physics Curricular Material and Programs for Teaching Spin in Quantum Mechanics.”

May 2005: $3,200, Davidson College FS&R Grant.

May 2004: $3,200, Davidson College FS&R Grant.

May 2003: $2,500, Associated Colleges of the South, Teaching with Technology Fellowship with Wolfgang Christian. Summer fellowship for the project, “Developing Open Source Physics Curricular Material and Programs for Quantum Mechanics.”

September 2002: $450, Davidson College’s Dean Rusk Program. Partial funding for my trip to Paris, France to participate in the CoLoS meeting and to Parma, Italy to participate in the 7th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning.

July 2002: $494,715, National Science Foundation’s CCLI-EMD program (DUE-0126439) for the proposal, “Open-Source Physics EducatioN (OPEN).” I am co-PI on this grant with Wolfgang Christian as PI.

May 2002: $3,000, Davidson College FS&R Grant. Summer support for physics majors Kevin Bell and Andrew Schoewe for work on supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

May 2002: $2,500, Associated Colleges of the South, Teaching with Technology Fellowship with Larry Cain and Wolfgang Christian. Summer fellowship for the project, “Using Physlets and Just-in-Time Teaching in Quantum Mechanics, II.”

November 2001: $26,682, Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award (CC5470) for the proposal, “Using Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics to Construct and Investigate New Exactly Solvable PT-Symmetric Periodic Potentials.”

May 2001: $2,500, Associated Colleges of the South, Teaching with Technology Fellowship with Larry Cain and Wolfgang Christian. Summer fellowship for the project, “Using Physlets and Just-in-Time Teaching in Quantum Mechanics.”

May 2001: $3,000, Davidson College FS&R Grant. Summer support for mathematics major Ben Sargent for work on supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

May 2000: $2,500, Davidson College FS&R Grant. Summer support for Junior physics major Tim Valdes for work on supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

Awards/Honors

November 2007: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) Award from the Krell Institute. Award given to the Open Source Physics Project (Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, Anne Cox, Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Douglas Brown) for promotion and enhancement of computational engineering and science. The award honors innovation, educational impact, and breadth of development and implementation of educational materials.

March 2007: Best Pedagogical Paper Award from the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

July 2006: As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, the American Institute of Physics posted the top five articles from Computing in Science and Engineering. The paper, “Physlets for Quantum Mechanics,” M. Belloni and W. Christian, Comp. Sci. Eng. 5, 90-96 (2003), was deemed “Best Education Article” and stated that “this article meets the ideal framed by the mission of CiSE as a publication.” Available at: http://www.aip.org/anniversary/pubs_cise.html.

January 2006: Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers.

October 2004: Web page on QCD (quantum chromodynamics) referenced in the American Institute of Physics News Brief 703 (http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/703.html) which described the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. My Web page was one of three listed as a reference on QCD. Web page: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/mjb/qcd.html.

February 2002 and October 2003: The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) Physics Editorial Panel posted peer reviews of educational content Wolfgang Christian and I authored from the Physlet and Physlet Physics books, respectively. Only the best MERLOT material is chosen for review. The honor acknowledged our contribution to teaching and learning, and to the scholarship of teaching in physics.

September 2002: 2002 Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources. Wolfgang Christian and I received the award for our work on Physlets. The competition featured entries from each of MERLOT’s twelve discipline communities (so-called MERLOT Classics). Our work received the highest honor of Editor’s Choice for being an exemplary model for all disciplines.

February 2001: My Physics 120 course and my teaching methods (Physlets and Just-in-Time Teaching) were profiled in the Syllabus column of the February 16, 2001 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

1990: Marshall Walker Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

1989: Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Fellowship.

1989: Marshall Walker Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

1988: Charles A. Reynolds Predoctoral Fellowship.

Student Awards/Honors/Theses

September 2006: Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award from the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Award given to David Sheibley (’07).

May 2006: 76-page Honors Thesis, “An Analytic Study of the Quantum-mechanical Asymmetric Infinite Square Well,” completed by Laura Gilbert (’06).

April 2006: Physics Award at Davidson College. Award given to Laura Gilbert (’06).

March 2006: Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award from the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Award given to Laura Gilbert (’06).

October 2005: Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award from the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Award given to Laura Gilbert (’06).

April 2005: Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award. Award given to Laura Gilbert (’06) for research completed with Mario Belloni.

April 2003: Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award. Award given to Adam Abele (’03) for research completed with Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni.

Professional Service/Outreach/Leadership

April 2008: Organizing Committee of the Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Davidson, NC.

January 2008-January 2009: Vice Chair of the Committee on Educational Technologies of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

September 2007-December 2007: Member of the Computing in Science and Engineering Editor in Chief Selection Committee.

July 2007: Session Organizer and Chair, “Need for Speed,” Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Greensboro, NC.

May 2007: Leader and Participant for the Section Representative/Area Chair Governance Retreat for the American Association of Physics Teachers.

May 2007-present: North Carolina Section Representative of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Elected by the North Carolina Section.

April 2007-May 2007: Planning Committee for the Section Representative/Area Chair Governance Retreat for the American Association of Physics Teachers.

January 2007-January 2008: Member of the Meetings Committee of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

January 2007-present: Member of the Committee on Educational Technologies of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

March 2005-present: Referee for Physica Scripta.

September 2006: Session Chair, Third International Conference on Hands-on Science, HSCI' 2006, Braga, Portugal.

July 2006: Session Chair, American Association of Physics Teachers, Syracuse, New York.

May 2006-present: Books Department Editor, Computing in Science and Engineering.

March 2006: Session Chair, North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Belmont, North Carolina.

March 2006: Panel Member, NSF CCLI Phase II Review.

December 2005-present: Physics Content Reviewer for MERLOT.

October 2005: Session Chair, North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Pembroke, North Carolina.

September 2005-May 2006: Member, SPS Committee on Undergraduate Research.

September 2005: Attended the 2005 SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma National Council Meeting as proxy Zone Councilor from Zone 5, Washington, D.C.

July 2005: Evaluator for the U. S. Physics Talent Search in conjunction with the World Year of Physics.

June 2005: Radio talk show guest for the program, “Einstein’s Miraculous Year,” with Wolfgang Christian and Chuck Stone on Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins, WFAE 90.7 fm. 9am broadcast and 7pm rebroadcast (6/24/05).

March 2005-present: Referee for Foundations of Physics Letters.

October 2004: Co-chair, Local Organizing Committee, Joint Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Zone 9 Society of Physics Students, Davidson, North Carolina.

May 2004: Invited Expert at the “Lunch with the Experts” with the topic: Using the Results of Physics Education and Other Research in the Liberal Arts Classroom at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado.

January 2004-January 2007: Membership and Benefits Committee of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Nominated by Section Representatives and approved by the AAPT Council (the body of Section Representatives and Board Members).

January 2004-January 2005: Chair and Member of the Committee on Educational Technologies of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

November 2003: Referee for the Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings (Madison WI, 2003).

June 2003-present: Member of the ComPADRE Quantum Physics Editorial Board. ComPADRE (Communities of Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources for Education) is a network of collections that provide learning resources and interactive learning environments. This effort is supported by the NSF NSDL Initiative and AAS, SPS, AIP/APS, Physics Central, and AAPT.

April 2003-April 2007: North Carolina Section Representative of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Elected by the North Carolina Section.

April 2003-present: Referee for The Physics Teacher.

January 2003-January 2004: Chair and Member of the Committee on Educational Technologies of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

September 2002: Session chair at the 7th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning of the European Physical Society, Parma, Italy.

August 2002-present: Referee for the American Journal of Physics.

June 2002: Discussion Leader for the session, “Theoretical Research and Teaching Quantum Mechanics,” Gordon Research Conference on Physics Research and Education: Quantum Mechanics, South Hadley, MA.

March 2000: Session Chair, North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Davidson, North Carolina.

August 1999-present: Co-organizer and co-leader of numerous (see Workshops below) curriculum development workshops for high school and college physics teachers.

Books

December 2006: פעילויות דינאמיות בהדגמה, חקירה, ופתרון בעיות בקורסי פיזיקה גרסה עברית דר' דוד פונדק, דר' סעיד מחאג'נה, מר שאדי עסקלה המכללה האקדמית להנדסה אורט בראודה Multi-Representational Mechanics: Physlet^® Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics, Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and David Pundak. A 194-page book and CD with over 100 interactive Physlet-based exercises for Hebrew-speaking physics students and teachers. 03-9518418, 03-9522326. http://braude.ort.org.il/physlet/.

November 2006: Physik mit Physlets, Frank Scheickert, Peter Krahmer, Alfred Nussbaumer, W. Christian, and M. Belloni. An 88-page book and CD with over 100 interactive Physlet-based exercises for German-speaking physics students and teachers. Published by Klett, ISBN: 3-12-772620-1.

July 2006: Fizika s Fizleti: Interaktivne predstavitve in raziskave za uvod v fiziko, Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Saša Divjak. A 266-page book and CD with over 300 interactive Physlet-based exercises for Slovenian-speaking introductory physics students and teachers. Published by the Slovenian Ministry of Education and Sports (Ministrvo za šolstvo in šport, Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo), ISBN: 9612345597. July 2006.

August 2005: Physlet^® Quantum Physics: An Interactive Introduction, Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Anne J. Cox. A 224-page interactive textbook and CD with over 200 Physlet-based exercises for the teaching of quantum physics. Physlet Quantum Physics is designed as a compliment to any modern physics and quantum mechanics textbook. Published as part of Prentice Hall’s Series in Educational Innovation. ISBN 0-13-101970-8. Physlet Quantum Physics is now in its fourth printing.

March 2004: Fislets: Enseñanza de la Física con Material Interactivo, por Francisco Esquembre, Ernesto Martín, Wolfgang Christian y Mario Belloni. A 456-page book and CD with over 300 interactive Physlet-based exercises for Spanish-speaking introductory physics students and teachers. Prentice-Hall, España, ISBN: 84-205-3781-0.

July 2003: Physlet^® Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics, Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni. A 327-page interactive textbook and CD with over 800 Physlet-based exercises for the teaching of introductory physics. Published as part of Prentice Hall’s Series in Educational Innovation. ISBN 0-13-101969-4. Physlet Physics is now in its fifth printing.

October 2000: Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material, Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni. A 277-page book and CD on teaching pedagogy for Web-based curricular material based on interactive Physlet problems. Published as part of Prentice Hall’s Series in Educational Innovation. ISBN 0-13-029341-5. Physlets is now in its sixth printing.

Instructor’s Manuals

March 2006: Instructor’s Manual for Physlet^® Quantum Physics, Mario Belloni and Anne J. Cox. A 72-page instructor manual to accompany Physlet^® Quantum Physics. Prentice-Hall 2006.

Books as Contributing Author

January 2006: Integration of Physlet^® Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics by Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni into College Physics by Jerry Wilson, Anthony Buffa, and Bo Lou, Sixth Edition. Entire Physlet Physics CD appears in the back of the book and “PHYSLET” bookmarks appear in the margins to point the reader to the appropriate Physlet-based materials on the CD. Prentice-Hall 2006.

Book Chapters

January 2006: “Authoring Curricular Material,” by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian, Chapter 15 of Open Source Physics: A User’s Guide with Examples by Wolfgang Christian. Also wrote the curriculum in “osp_demo.jar” which is on the CD which accompanies the text. Addison-Wesley 2006.

Journal Publications (undergraduates denoted by a *)

September 2008: “Constraints on Airy function zeros from quantum-mechanical sum rules,” Mario Belloni and Richard W. Robinett, submitted to J. Phys. A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

September 2008: “A Simple Demonstration for the Static Ladder Problem,” Mario Belloni, “Tricks of the Trade” Column, submitted to The Physics Teacher.

September 2008: “Quantum mechanical sum rules for two model systems,” Mario Belloni and Richard W. Robinett, Am. J. Phys. 76, 798-806 (2008).

April/May 2008: “Time Development in Quantum Mechanics Using a Reduced Hilbert Space Approach.” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. Am. J. Phys. 76, 385-392 (2008).

October 2007: “Teaching Qualitative Energy-eigenfunction Shape with Physlets,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Anne J. Cox,” The Physics Teacher 45, 488-491 (2007).

September 2007: “Strategies for Adopting Interactive Engagement Methods,” Mario Belloni and Anne J. Cox,” For the New Teacher Column, The Physics Teacher 45, 395-397 (2007).

July 2007: “Improving Students’ Understanding of Quantum Mechanics,” Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, Parity (the Japanese language version of Physics Today), July 20-29 (2007).

July 2007: “Open Source Physics Curricular Material for Quantum Mechanics: Dynamics and Measurement of Quantum Two-state Superpositions,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Douglas Brown, Computing in Science and Engineering 9, 24-31 (2007).

March 2007: “Approaches for Improving Students’ Understanding of Quantum Mechanics,” Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, Letters Column, Physics Today, pp. 8-14, March (2007). Letters and responses from the paper: “Improving Students’ Understanding of Quantum Mechanics,” Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, Physics Today, pp. 43-49, August (2006).

November 2006: “Playing Quantum Physics Jeopardy with zero-energy eigenstates,” Laura Gilbert*, Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, American Journal of Physics 74, 1035-1036 (2006). ArXiv number: quant-ph/0606196.

November 2006: “Piecewise Zero-curvature Energy Eigenfunctions in One Dimension,” Laura Gilbert*, Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, European Journal of Physics 27, 1331-1339 (2006).

September 2006: “An Open Source XML Framework for Authoring Curricular Material,” Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Douglas Brown, Computing in Science and Engineering, September/October (2006).

August 2006: “Improving Students’ Understanding of Quantum Mechanics,” Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, Physics Today, pp. 43-49, August (2006).

December 2005: “Teaching Physics with Physlet-based Ranking Task Exercises,” Anne J. Cox, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, The Physics Teacher 43, 587-592 (2005).

September 2005: “More on the Asymmetric Infinite Square Well: Energy Eigenstates with Zero-curvature,” Laura Gilbert*, Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, European Journal of Physics 26, 815-825 (2005). ArXiv number: quant-ph/0512156.

July 2005: “Physlets and Open Source Physics for Quantum Mechanics: Visualizing Quantum-mechanical Revivals,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) Volume 1, No. 1, July 2005. Invited. Web address: http://jolt.merlot.org/.

June 2005: “Zero-curvature Solutions to the One-dimensional Schrödinger Equation,” Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, Physica Scripta 72, 2-3, 122-126 (2005). ArXiv number: quant-ph/0410104.

February 2005: “Exact Results for ‘Bouncing’ Gaussian Wave Packets,” Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, Physica Scripta 71, 2, 136-140 (2005). ArXiv number: quant-ph/0408182.

May 2004: “Using Physlets and Open Source Physics to Make Quantum Mechanics Visual and Interactive,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Larry Cain, (invited) Transformations: Liberal Arts in the Digital Age Volume 2, No. 1 (2004). Transformations is the Associated Colleges of the South’s electronic journal. Paper is available at: http://www.colleges.org/transformations/index.php?q=node/view/77.

May 2004: “Teaching Special Relativity with Physlets^®,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Melissa H. Dancy, The Physics Teacher 42, 284-290 (2004).

November 2003: “Интерактивные учебные материалы на основе физлетов,” Вольфганг Кристиан, Марио Беллони, Мелисса Дэнси и Анна Кох, Russian Journal: Computer Tools in Education 5'2003, p. 30-41, St. Petersburg (2003).

September 2003: “Teaching Thermodynamics with Physlets^® in Introductory Physics,” Anne J. Cox, Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Melissa H. Dancy, Physics Education 38, 433 (2003). This paper was downloaded from the journal Web site 100 times in the first 13 days of it being posted.

January 2003: “Physlets for Quantum Mechanics,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian, Computing in Science and Engineering 5, 90 (2003). The Web site with the curricular material referred to in this paper was visited over 1,000 times in 2003.

November 2002: “Teaching with Physlets^®: Examples from Optics,” Melissa Dancy, Wolfgang Christian, and Mario Belloni, Featured Article, The Physics Teacher 40, 494 (2002).

November 2001: “Physlets: Web-based Java Applets for Physics Education,” Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Melissa Dancy, Fall Newsletter of the American Physical Society Forum on Education. Available at: http://www.aps.org/units/fed/fall2001/index.html.

1997: “Gauss’s law, gauge-invariance and long-range forces in QCD,” Mario Belloni, Lusheng Chen, and Kurt Haller, Phys. Lett. B403, 316 (1997).

1997: “Gauss’s law and gauge-invariant operators and states in QCD,” Lusheng Chen, Mario Belloni, and Kurt Haller, Phys. Rev. D 55, 2347 (1997).

1996: “Implementing Gauss’s law in Yang-Mills theory and QCD,” Mario Belloni, Lusheng Chen, and Kurt Haller, Phys. Lett. B373, 185 (1996).

1992: “A Laboratory For Student Research On Insulators Using The Pulsed Electroacoustic Technique,” M. Belloni, F. Lipschultz, and J. Tanaka, Annual Report of CEIDP p. 334. 92CH3123-7. ISBN 0-7803-0565-5.

Proceedings Publications

January 2005: “Multimedia Curricular Material Informed by Physics Education Research: Physlet-based Ranking Task Exercises,” Anne J. Cox, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning of the European Physical Society. Available at: http://physik.uni-graz.at/MPTL9/index.php?style=3&item=5&subitem=3 .

October 2003: “Developing Open Source Programs for Upper Level Science and Mathematics,” Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning of the European Physical Society.

September 2003: “Developing an Open Source Library and Programs for Science and Mathematics,” Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni, Proceedings of the 2003 EUROCON Conference, Ljubljana Slovenia, pp. 15-19, ISBN 0-7803-7763-X.

September 2003: “Authoring and Assessing Physlet^®-based Interactive Curricular Material,” Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, Melissa H. Dancy, and Anne J. Cox, Proceedings of the 2003 EUROCON Conference, Ljubljana Slovenia, pp. 41-44, ISBN 0-7803-7763-X.

July 2003: “Enseñando Física con los Fislets,” Ernesto Martín, Francisco Esquembre, Wolfgang Christian, y Mario Belloni, Proceedings of the VIII Conferencia Interaméricana sobre Educación en la Física, Havana, Cuba.

June 2003: “Physlet-based Interactive Curricular Material,” Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, Melissa H. Dancy, and Anne J. Cox, Proceedings of the 2003 Computer Modeling Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 18-31.

June 2003: “Developing an Open Source Code Library for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Curriculum Authors,” Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni, Proceedings of the 2003 Computer Modeling Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 6-18.

November 2002: “Enhancing Student Learning with Physlet-based Just-in-Time Teaching,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian and Aaron Titus, Proceedings of the 2002 Invitational Conference on K-12 Outreach from University Science Departments: Using Technology to Link the Classroom to the Laboratory (and Murphy to Manteo), 52-57, The Science House, North Carolina State University, ISBN 0-9704885-5-6. Available at: http://www.science-house.org/conf/conf02/proceedings.pdf.

November 2002: “Using Physlets to Teach Quantum Mechanics,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning of the European Physical Society. Available at: http://informando.infm.it/MPTL/proceedings/MarioBelloni.PDF.

November 2002: “A Brief Report on Available Multimedia Materials in the USA,” Mario Belloni, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning of the European Physical Society. Available at: http://informando.infm.it/MPTL/proceedings/MarioBelloniReport.pdf.

May 2001: “Physlets: Java Tools for a Web-based Physics Curriculum,” Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Melissa Dancy, in the Proceeding of the 2001 International Conference on Computational Science: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2073, Computational Science – ICCS 2001, 1061-1073, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-42232-3.

1993: “Constrained States in QCD: An Operator Approach to Gauss’s Law Constraint,” Mario Belloni and Kurt Haller, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Light-Cone Quantization, INFN, Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy).

Curricular Packages

September 2007: “ajp_reduced_hilber.jar,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. Self contained file in support of the paper, “Time Development in Quantum Mechanics Using a Reduced Hilbert Space Approach.” File contains executable Java programs and curricular material.

May 2006: “osp_measurement.jar,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. We developed curricular material to support the teaching of quantum-mechanical measurement. Materials can be found on our quantum mechanics Web site, and also on the ComPADRE quantum mechanics digital library.

April 2006: “osp_superposition.jar,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. We developed curricular material to support the teaching of quantum-mechanical superpositions. Materials can be found on our quantum mechanics Web site, and also on the ComPADRE quantum mechanics digital library.

March 2006: “osp_spins.jar,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. We developed curricular material to support the teaching of quantum-mechanical spin. We also created a 55-page printable version of the materials available in PDF format. Materials can be found on our quantum mechanics Web site and also on the ComPADRE quantum mechanics digital library.

January 2006: “osp_demo.jar,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. We developed curricular material to support the teaching of classical orbits, electromagnetic radiation from point particles, and quantum-mechanical superpositions. Distributed on the CD which accompanies the text, Open Source Physics.

July 2005: “osp_quilt.jar,” Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. We developed an interactive tutorial to support the teaching of quantum-mechanical time evolution. Materials can be found on our quantum mechanics Web site, and also on the ComPADRE quantum mechanics digital library.

Web Publications

March 2007: Teaching with Physlets and Interactive Curricular Materials, M. Belloni, Physics Workshop Project’s Electronic Newsletter.

February 2007: “Physlets and Open Source Physics for Quantum Mechanics,” M. Belloni and W. Christian, The Quantum Times, Newsletter of the APS Topical Group on Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation, Volume 1, Number 4.

November 2006: “Playing Quantum Physics Jeopardy with zero-energy eigenstates,” Laura Gilbert, Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett. Content to support the paper of the same name published in The American Journal of Physics. Available at: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/mjb/jeopardy. This material is also published as EPAPS Document E-AJPIAS-74-016609 at: ftp://ftp.aip.org/epaps/am_j_phys/E-AJPIAS-74-016609/.

September 2004: “Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution for the Infinite Square Well: Energy Eigenstates and Time-dependent Wave Packets,” Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett. Content to support the paper of the same name published in The American Journal of Physics. Available at: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/mjb/wigner. This material is also published as EPAPS Document E-AJPIAS-72-020408 at: ftp://ftp.aip.org/epaps/am_j_phys/E-AJPIAS-72-020408/index.html.

August 2004: “Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution for the Infinite Square Well: Energy Eigenstates and Time-dependent Wave Packets,” Mario Belloni, Michael Doncheski, and Richard Robinett, Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Volume 10, Issue 9 (2004). American Journal of Physics paper selected to appear in this weekly multi-journal compilation of the latest research on nanoscale systems. Available at: http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=VIRT01&Volume=10&Issue=9.

May 2004: Web site: “Using Physlets and Open Source Physics to Make Quantum Mechanics Visual and Interactive,” Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Larry Cain. Content to support the paper of the same name in Transformations: Liberal Arts in the Digital Age. Available at: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/mjb/acs_transformations_qm.

January 2003: “Physlets for Quantum Mechanics,” Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. Content to support the paper of the same name that appeared in CiSE. These pages were visited over 1,000 times in 2003. Available at: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/cise_qm.