Refereed Publications

1.      Vandegrift, G. 2008. "The River Needs a Cork", The Physics Teacher 46 (7):440

2.      Vandegrift, G. 2004. "The diffraction and spreading of a wavepacket". American Journal of Physics 72 (3): 404-407.

3.      Bohan, R and Vandegrift, G, 2003. "Temperature-Driven Convection". The Physics Teacher 41 (2): 76-77.

4.      Vandegrift, G. 2002. "The maze of quantum mechanics". European Journal of Physics 23 (5): 513-522.

5.      Vandegrift, G. 2000. "Accelerating wavepacket solution to Schrodinger's equation subject to a uniform force". American Journal of Physics 68 (26): 576-567.

6.      Vandegrift, G., and Fultz, B. 1998. "The Mossbauer Effect Explained". American Journal of Physics 66 (7): 593-596.

7.      Vandegrift, G. 1997. "Transverse bending waves and the breaking broomstick demonstration". American Journal of Physics 65 (6): 505-510.

8.      Vandegrift, G., and Wall, E. 1997. "The spatial inhomogeneity of pressure inside a violin at main air resonance". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102 (1) 622-627.

9.      Vandegrift, G. 1995. "Bell's Theorem and Psychic Phenomena". Philosophical Quarterly 45 (181): 471-476. Reprinted in Theodore Schick, Jr., (editor) 1999: Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism. Mountainview, CA: Mayfield Co  [Note:  Professor Yang of Grossmont College recently devoted an entire week of Philosophy_155 to this paper!] 

10.  Vandegrift, G.. 1995. "On the derivation of Coriolis and other noninertial accelerations". American Journal of Physics 63(7): 663.

11.  Vandegrift, G. 1994. "Why Bach Sounds Funny on the Piano". American String Teacher (Fall 1994) 44(4): 12-18.

12.  Vandegrift, G.. 1993. "Experimental investigation of the Helmholtz resonance of a Violin", American Journal of Physics 61 (5): 415-421.

13.  Vandegrift, G. 1993. "A simple derivation of the Green's function for a rectangular Helmholtz resonator at low frequency", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94 (1): 574-575.

14.  Vandegrift, G. 1993. "Deducing the width of a Lorenzian resonance curve from experimental data", American Journal of Physics. 61 (5): 473-474.

15.  Vandegrift, G., Donahue, K., and Velat, D. 1991. "A plasma source for mirror physics simulation experiments" Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (4): 2414-2421.

16.  Vandegrift, G., and Loomis, R. 1990. "An end loss analyzer for plasma diagnosis" Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (5): 1369-1369.

17.  Vandegrift, G.. 1989. "Line-tying of Interchange Modes in a Nearly Collisionless Mirror Trapped Plasma" Physics of Fluids B 1 (12): 2414-2421.

18.  Vandegrift, G., Baker, T., Digrazio, J., Dohne, A., Flori, A., Loomis, R., Steel, C, and, Velat, D. 1989. "Wave Cutoff on a Suspended Slinky", American Journal of Physics 57 (10): 949-950.

19.  Bekhtenev, A. A., Vandegrift, G. G., and, Volosov, V. I. 1988. "The Modulation in the Parallel Current in an Open Magnetic Trap Experiencing Potential Fluctuations in the Plasma", Fizika Plasmy 14(3): 292-300. [in Russian; translated to English in Soviet Journal of Plasma Physics (1988) 14 (3) pp. 168-173.]

20.  Vandegrift, G., and Good, T. 1986. "Partial Line-tying of the Flute Mode in a Magnetic Mirror", Physics of Fluids 29 ( 2): 550-555.

21.  Wickham, M, and Vandegrift, G. 1982. "Curvature Induced Interchange Mode in an Axisymmetric Plasma", Physics of Fluids 25 (1): 52-58.

Selected Unrefereed Publications

·         Vandegrift. G. “The Breakdown of Euclid's Geometry in Linearized Relativity”.  Submitted to the American Journal of Physics, August 2008

·         Vandegrift, G. 2002. "The year I didn’t teach: Reflections on a lecture-less attempt" Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (CLUME), N. Erfan and V. Perera, eds., Karunaratne and Sons, Ltd..

·         Stupakov, G. and Vandegrift, G. 1984. "The Reflection of Alfven Waves for Super-Alfven Flow to the Wall" Instutute of Nuclear Physics Report 84-139, Novosibirsk, Russia.