Curriculum Vitae: Guy
Vandegrift, Ph. D.
Assistant
Professor of Physics, Wright State University Lake Campus (August 2007 � present)
A.B.
(Physics) 1974, University of California at Berkeley (Sep 1970 - Jun 1974)
Ph.D. (Physics) 1982, University of California at Berkeley
(Sep 1976 - Jun 1982)
Previous Positions:
Research
Specialist Associate, Physics Department, University of California at Irvine,
June 1982 � December 1984
Research
Specialist, Department of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Columbia
University, New York, 1984 � November 1985
Visiting Scientist to Soviet
Union, National Academy of Sciences, February 1984 � November 1984
Assistant
Professor of Physics, Dickinson College Carlisle, January 1987 � June 1991
Physics Lecturer, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, August
1991 � June 1995
Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Texas at El Paso August 1995
� June 1999
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Purdue University North Central� August 1999 � Spring 2006
Visiting Professor of Mathematics,
Valparaiso University August 2006 � August 2007.
Professor
of Physics, Wright State University Lake Campus� August 2007 � present.
Past interests:�
Plasma Physics, Musical Acoustics,
Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Relativity,
and Boatbuilding.�
Current interests:�
I am now
dedicated to the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in a way that can �automate�
college teaching in the way that driving a car can now be accomplished by
robots.� Sufficient teaching materials
are now available for most courses, so the next step is to develop an open bank of exam questions.� The bank needs to be very large, so that most
of the good questions can be �hidden in plain sight� among the inferior
questions (also private wikis can host various collections of �secret�
questions.)�� A set of formula
sheets for OpenStax textbooks is currently under
construction, and in this effort, submitted this
collection of typographical errors to OpenStax.
In a
parallel and independent effort, we also need to �automate� the grading of
essays by creating an OER version of Calibrated Peer Review that
uses public and private
wikis. This latter effort will address the need for higher levels of
learning in Bloom�s
taxonomy.
Publications:
1.
Vandegrift, G. and Stommel, J.� (submission)�
"A
card game for Bell's theorem and its loopholes" Submitted to WikiJournal of Science in 2017.
2.
Vandegrift, G.� 2017.
"A
Solar Eclipse Activity for a Sunny Day" Sky & Telescope:
Stargazer�s Corner. June 26
3.
Vandegrift, G. 2008. "The River Needs a Cork", The Physics Teacher 46 (7):440
4.
Vandegrift, G. 2004. "The diffraction
and spreading of a wavepacket". American Journal of Physics 72 (3): 404-407.
5.
Bohan, R and Vandegrift, G, 2003.
"Temperature-Driven
Convection". The Physics Teacher
41 (2): 76-77.
6.
Vandegrift, G. 2002. "The maze of quantum mechanics". European Journal of Physics 23 (5): 513-522.
7.
Vandegrift, G. 2000. "Accelerating
wavepacket solution to Schrodinger's equation subject
to a uniform force". American
Journal of Physics 68 (26): 576-567.
8.
Vandegrift, G., and Fultz, B. 1998. "The Mossbauer Effect
Explained". American Journal of
Physics 66 (7): 593-596.
9.
Vandegrift, G. 1997. "Transverse
bending waves and the breaking broomstick demonstration". American Journal of Physics 65 (6): 505-510.
10.
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.
11.
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!]
12.
Vandegrift, G.. 1995. "On the derivation of
Coriolis and other noninertial accelerations". American Journal of Physics 63(7): 663.
13.
Vandegrift, G. 1994. "Why Bach Sounds Funny on the Piano". American String Teacher (Fall 1994) 44(4):
12-18.
14.
Vandegrift, G.. 1993. "Experimental
investigation of the Helmholtz resonance of a Violin", American Journal of Physics 61 (5): 415-421.
15.
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.
16.
Vandegrift, G. 1993. "Deducing the width of a Lorenzian
resonance curve from experimental data",
American Journal of Physics. 61 (5): 473-474.
17.
Vandegrift, G., Donahue, K., and Velat,
D. 1991. "A plasma source for mirror physics simulation experiments" Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (4):
2414-2421.
18.
Vandegrift, G., and Loomis, R. 1990. "An end loss
analyzer for plasma diagnosis"
Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (5): 1369-1369.
19.
Vandegrift, G.. 1989. "Line-tying
of Interchange Modes in a Nearly Collisionless Mirror
Trapped Plasma" Physics of
Fluids B 1 (12): 2414-2421.
20.
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.
21.
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.]
22.
Vandegrift, G., and Good, T. 1986. "Partial Line-tying of the
Flute Mode in a Magnetic Mirror",
Physics of Fluids 29 ( 2): 550-555.
23.
Wickham, M, and Vandegrift, G. 1982. "Curvature Induced
Interchange Mode in an Axisymmetric Plasma", Physics of Fluids 25 (1): 52-58.�