francisco: >galileo's principle of relativity states that the laws of mechanics should
>be the same for all inertial observers. and indeed, newtonian mechanics is
>unchanged under galilean transformations. the problem is that maxwellian
>electrodynamics is not the same in every inertial frame under that
>transformation.
Not so. Galileo's definition of an inertial frame implicitly
assumes the c = \infty. Galilean transforms are the c -> \infty
of the lorentz transforms.
>so what to do? find a set of transformations under which
>both mechanics and electrodynamics are the same for all inertial frames.
>this leads to the lorentz transformation.
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