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Some really good stuff here.

http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html

R. VICTOR JONES
Robert L. Wallace Research Professor of Applied Physics
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Havard University
29 Oxford St.
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These lecture notes are excellent.

Claude.
 
It may be shown from the equations of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860’s, that the speed of light in the vacuum of free space is related to electric permittivity (ϵ) and magnetic permeability (μ) by the equation: c=1/√( μ ϵ ) . This value is a constant for the vacuum of free space and is independent of the motion of the observer. It was this fact, in part, that led Albert Einstein to Special Relativity.
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