Homepage Professor Rehfuss

Professor Rehfuss, with his nuclear physics background, progressed to transient high-pressure criticality studies at Los Alamos before joining the SDSU faculty. Research associations at Ames and Houston swept him into the excitement of man's first moon landings and the challenge of interpreting the history of lunar surface features. This led to a four-year NASA research contract involving computer studies of accretion, featuring thermodynamic models of energy partitioning during meteorite impact; a unique contribution was his concept of hyperballistic transport due to expanding vaporized material interacting with ejected solids during crater formation. Later research has included collaboration with GA Technologies of La Jolla in various magnetic field studies such as NMR-related topologies.

Professor Rehfuss frequently teaches the 400AB advanced electromagnetic theory courses. Another major teaching commitment is the evolution of Physics 107, the Department's only one-semester-with-lab introductory course. He has also developing a unique new course, the Junior Review, designed to consolidate concepts for non majors and to help physics majors become better prepared for upper division work.

For further information contact drehfuss at sciences.sdsu.edu