Modern Physics Notes
5 B. Special Relativity 1. Michelson-Morley a. Wave speeds Midway through the 19th century, it was established that light is an electromagnetic (E-M) wave. Maxwell showed that these waves propagate through the vacuum with a speed c ≈3x108 m/sec. Now, wave motion was well understood, so it was expected that light waves would behave
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