Transcript: Light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation travel at 300 thousand kilometers per second or 186 thousand miles per second. This is the speed of light denoted by the small letter “c”. The speed of light is so fast that it was not possible to measure it in ancient times. ...

Transcript: Faraday showed that the forces of electricity and magnetism were related, but what did this have to do with light? The answer was provided in the 19th century by the Scottish physicist James Clark Maxwell. Maxwell was a theorist who produced an elegant theory of light and...

Transcript: Michael Faraday was a brilliant, self taught, English physicist who lived about two hundred years ago. He rose from being a book binder’s apprentice to the director of the Royal Institution in London, the foremost scientific society of its age. Faraday was a brilliant experimenter...