ASTR 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Inertial Frame Of Reference, Albert A. Michelson, Time Dilation
15 Nov 2017
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Special relativity becomes important in systems which are moving on the order of the. Galileo was the first person to propose that the speed of light be measured with a lantern speed of light. The speed of light is c=3x10^8 m/s relay. his experiment was tried shortly after his death. In 1676 ole roemer first determined the speed of light. In 1873, maxwell first understood that light was an electromagnetic wave. It was the understanding of the nature of em radiation which first led to a conceptual problem that required relativity as a solution. According to his equations, a pulse of light emitted from a source at rest would spread out at a velocity ( c ) in all directions. A boat moving through water will see forward going waves as going slow and backwards waves as going fast. Albert michelson and edward morley were american physicists working at a university in.
