Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In the third of six lectures we are showing from Fernando Alday's 'Special Relativity' third year course, we look at how Maxwell equations predict the propagation of light at a constant speed, and how this is further confirmed by the Michelson-Morley Experiment. We need to re-think the principles of Galilean and Newtonian mechanics, and replace them by the postulates of Special Relativity.
You can watch other lectures in the course here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW13GWAAaLi0YoSvK76coptp
You can also watch many other student lectures via our main Student Lectures playlist (also check out specific student lectures playlists): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW0A4VHeiY0gSkX1QEraaacE
All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor in pairs to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes.
In the third of six lectures we are showing from Fernando Alday's 'Special Relativity' third year course, we look at how Maxwell equations predict the propagation of light at a constant speed, and how this is further confirmed by the Michelson-Morley Experiment. We need to re-think the principles of Galilean and Newtonian mechanics, and replace them by the postulates of Special Relativity.
You can watch other lectures in the course here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW13GWAAaLi0YoSvK76coptp
You can also watch many other student lectures via our main Student Lectures playlist (also check out specific student lectures playlists): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW0A4VHeiY0gSkX1QEraaacE
All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor in pairs to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes.
