American physicist
Daniel "Dan" Fleisch is an American physicist who specializes inelectromagnetics andspace physics .[ 1] He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics atWittenberg University .[ 2]
A minor planet is named after him.[ 3]
Fleisch earned his B.S. fromGeorgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. fromRice University inspace physics andastronomy .[ 4] He has been a professor atWittenberg University since 1998.[ 4]
Fleisch has provided science commentary forPBS stationWYSO ,[ 5] [ 6] and in 2006, appeared in the documentaryThe Dayton Codebreakers .[ 4]
Fleisch has authored several textbooks, includingA Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations [ 7] (2008) andA Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors (2011).[ 8] [ 9] His other works includeA Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy andA Student's Guide to Waves , published in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2020, he publishedA Student's Guide to the Schrödinger equation .[ 10] His work has been translated into multiple languages, includingJapanese ,Korean ,Chinese , andItalian .[ 4]
^ Flood, Alison (February 11, 2009)."Author flies to Canada to replace reader's faulty copy of his book" .The Guardian . ^ "Wittenberg to host WittClipse viewing party for campus, activities for solar eclipse" .springfield-news-sun .^ "Wittenberg professor has minor planet named after him" .springfield-news-sun .^a b c d "Daniel Fleisch, Ph.D. | Wittenberg University" .www.wittenberg.edu .^ "The Planets with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra" .WYSO .^ "Springfield Symphony Goes Out of This World With The Planets" .WYSO .^ Fleisch, Daniel (January 10, 2008).A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations .doi :10.1017/CBO9780511984624 .ISBN 978-0-521-87761-9 . {{cite book }}:|website= ignored (help )^ Hobson, Peter R. (November 1, 2012)."Scope: textbook. Level: pre-university, undergraduates, teachers, scientists, engineers" .doi :10.1080/00107514.2012.739651 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM. {{cite journal }}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help ) ^ Altenbach, Holm (January 14, 2012)."Book Review: Daniel Fleisch, A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011" .ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik .92 (1): 40.Bibcode :2012ZaMM...92...40A .doi :10.1002/zamm.201190027 – via Wiley Online Library. ^ Ishak, B. (October 1, 2020)."A student's guide to the Schrödinger equation" .Contemporary Physics .61 (4): 298.doi :10.1080/00107514.2020.1756917 – via www.tandfonline.com.