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asfd
Dec4-04, 04:29 PM
Am I right when I say that the doppler effect formula "f=f0((v+vo)/(v+vs))" is derivated from the classical theorem of speed addition and this is why the doppler effect for light and EM waves is different?

Integral
Dec4-04, 04:37 PM
Because light does not behave as a classical particle, it has a constant speed for all observers. It is frequency and wavelength which undergo a Doppler shift in light.

asfd
Dec4-04, 05:03 PM
I'm a little confused here...

I don't get how on this page: hyperphysics (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/reldop3.html) they get the first equation... I don't see the relativistic doppler effect written that way anywhere and I don't understand how they get ot that equation and how to expand it with maple...Anybody can help?

Doc Al
Dec4-04, 08:44 PM
That equation is just the relativistic Doppler formula rewritten in a form convenient for deriving the low speed approximation. They took something that usually appears in a form like:
\sqrt{\frac{1 + x}{1 - x}}
And rewrote it like:
\frac{\sqrt{1 - x^2}}{1 - x}
These expressions are equivalent.