AbstractThe paper is the third in a series which presents results on the small‐signal diametral response of a Czochralski crystal grown in a resistively heated furnace to variations in heater temperature and pull rate. For typical growth conditions and a wide range of materials it has been shown that this response is obtained by solving a set of linear differential equations. Conditions for normal response, i.e. the diameter increasing on heater temperature and/or pull rate decrease, have been established and shown to hold for most practical cases. The transfer function obtained is consistent with previous results for an inductively heated growth apparatu