Which comparisons should students make between the predictions from Maxwell’s equations and the classical principle of relativity?
Students should be aware that Maxwell’s equations implied that light should have an absolute velocity independent of the frame of reference and that this was in complete contradiction to the classical principle of relativity (also known as Galilean relativity). That principle implies that the measured speed of light must be dependent on the velocity of the observer through the medium in which the light is travelling.
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