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I am a retired physics professor who believes we can drastically reduce the cost of higher education. Creating opportunities for students to prove their competency by taking exams is essential to this goal. See also: passmyexams.co.uk and myopenmath.com.

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Refereed Publications Year
The Mössbauer effect explained,G Vandegrift, B Fultz American Journal of Physics 66 (7), 593-596 1998
Accelerating wave packet solution to Schrödinger’s equation,G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 68 (6), 576-577 2000
Curvature induced interchange mode in an axisymmetric plasma, M Wickham, G Vandegrift, The Physics of Fluids 25 (1), 52-58 1982
Experimental study of the Helmholtz resonance of a violin, G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 61 (5), 415-421 1993
On the derivation of Coriolis and other noninertial accelerations, G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 63 (7), 663-663 1995
Wave cutoff on a suspended slinky, G Vandegrift, T Baker, J DiGrazio, A Dohne, A Flori, R Loomis, C Steel, ..., American Journal of Physics 57 (10), 949-951 1989
Bell's theorem and psychic phenomena, G Vandegrift, The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-) 45 (181), 471-476 (Reprinted in Theodore Schick, Jr., (editor) 1999: Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism) 1995
Deducing the width of a Lorentzian resonance curve from experimental data, G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 61 (5), 473-474 1993
Partial line-tying of the flute mode in a magnetic mirror, G Vandegrift, TN Good, The Physics of fluids 29 (2), 550-555 1986
The diffraction and spreading of a wavepacket, G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 72 (3), 404-407 2004
The maze of quantum mechanics, G Vandegrift, European Journal of Physics 23 (5), 513 2002
The spatial inhomogeneity of pressure inside a violin at main air resonance, G Vandegrift, E Wall, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102 (1), 622-627 1997
Transverse bending waves and the breaking broomstick demonstration, G Vandegrift, American Journal of Physics 65 (6), 505-510 1997
Line tying of interchange modes in a nearly collisionless mirror trapped plasma, G Vandegrift, Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics 1 (12), 2414-2421 1989
Temperature-driven convection, RJ Bohan, G Vandegrift, The Physics Teacher 41 (2), 76-77 2003
A simple derivation of the Green’s function for a rectangular Helmholtz resonator at low frequency, G Vandegrift, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94 (1), 574-575 1993
The River Needs a Cork, G Vandegrift, The Physics Teacher 46 (7), 440-440 2008
Why Bach Sounds Funny on the Piano, G Vandegrift, American String Teacher 44 (4), 12-16 1994
A card game for Bell's theorem and its loopholes, G Vandegrift, J Stomel, WikiJournal of Science 1 (1), 1-10 2018
End loss analyzer for plasma diagnosis, G Vandegrift, R Loomis, Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (5), 1368-1369 1991
A plasma source for mirror physics simulation experiments, G Vandegrift, K Donahue, D Velat, Review of Scientific Instruments 62 (4), 906-908 1991

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