William Crummett
Professor of Physics, emeritus
Expertise
BS in physics from West Virginia Institute of Technology
PhD from West Virginia University
BIOGRAPHY
Bill Crummett is professor of physics, emeritus at Centre College. He came to the College in 1987 after teaching at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, and retired in 2014.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Crummett is co-author of University Physics: Models and Applications, a physics textbook published in 1994 by the William C. Brown Company. His co-author is Art Western of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Crummett and Western also collaborated to develop the Sonic Ranger, a piece of equipment that greatly aids student physics laboratories by providing a way to link an ultrasonic ranger with the graphing capabilities of a computer. He also has published articles that have appeared in The Physics Teacher and the American Journal of Physics.