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    Is the Audibility of Emergency Vehicle Sirens Affected by Speed and Distance?

    What? Im kinda looking for the formula that shows the relation between an objects speed and the distance it can be heard if it were emitting a steady sound. I understand It can be heard in a circular direction, but the notion that it is compressed so greatly at such slow speeds is odd to me.
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    Is the Audibility of Emergency Vehicle Sirens Affected by Speed and Distance?

    I am currently enrolled in a driver / operator class for my fire department and a statement that was written in our textbooks has been bothering me. " If a fire apparatus is traveling at 40 miles per hour the siren can be heard at a distance of 300ft. However, if a fire apparatus is traveling at...
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