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I Doppler effect in transparent media and the index of refraction
If there is a light source that is moving relative to an observer and both are inside water for example for an observer at rest relative to the source the emitted light will have a certain frequency,however for the other observer in relative motion the frequency will change and hence the...- member 743765
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- Doppler Transparent
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Doppler Effect Question: Flying Bat Echolocating a Mosquito
Hi, Would 1) be f' = (10,300)[(340 - 1.00) / (340 - 1.05)] = 10,302 Hz 2) f' = (10,300)[(340 - 1.00) / (340)] = 10,270 Hz 3) Yes? As the frequency changes more and less than 1.00 Hz. I am unsure and would appreciate any help. Thanks!- pot
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- Doppler Frequency
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I Doppler and Searchlight (Headlight)
The images below were taken from the website https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=ScienceClic+Alessandro+Roussel+What+would+we+see+at+the+speed+of+light%3f&mid=40C52E198C7F4F9D4EE240C52E198C7F4F9D4EE2&FORM=VIRE Starting at about min 11:30. Question: I know that objects that...- Albertgauss
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- Doppler Redshift
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Doppler effect derivation for moving observer and stationary source
For this, Does someone please know where they got that ##f'## is number of waves fronts received per unit time from? Also could we write the equation highlighted as ##f' = \frac{n\lambda}{t}## where ##n## is the number of wavefronts in a time ##t##? I derived that from ##\frac{vt}{\lambda} =...- member 731016
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- Derivation Doppler
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Doppler effect and acceleration of source
Hi. I need help with part a). I calculated the wavelength of the source by using the formula f_0 = v_phasefront / λ and got λ = (343 m/s) / (520 Hz) = 0.6596 m. And then I set up an equation for the velocity of the source v(t) = a*t (with v(t = 0 )= 0 m/s) and s(t) = 1/2 * at^2 + s_0. But I...- orangephysik
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- Acceleration Doppler Doppler effect Source
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I Doppler Shift & Christoffel Symbols Issues
About a month or two ago I started doing simulations of light physics around black holes and yesterday I got a fast Christoffel symbols function for the Schwarzschild metric in cartesian coordinates, but now the photon ring appears flipped. I feel as though it is wrong. But as I am still pretty...- Jessie24789
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- Black hole Christoffel Christoffel symbols Doppler Doppler shift General relativity Issues Shift Simulation Symbols
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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A Understanding 3D Doppler Shift with Satellites
I am trying to understand a case of doppler shift if I have two satellite circling the earth with different velocities but the same direction and with different altitudes as well. How I will be able to figure out the doppler shift in three dimension between the two satellite if one of the...- Alia_3
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- 3d Doppler Doppler effect Doppler shift Shift
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Highschool Student Struggling to Understand Doppler Effect Paper
I'm a highschool student learning about astrophysics, and I'm trying to understand this paper by Dr. Sophia Cisneros because I find it interesting and I want to do an informational interview. The problem is, I just have really bad reading comprehension, especially with all the scientific jargon...- inspacewithcallisto
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- Doppler Doppler effect
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Doppler Shifting of Light: Simplification or Reality?
Is red shifting of light from distant stars actually caused from them moving away from us, or is this a simplification. Doesn't this break the rule of light always going the same speed. Could the light rays be possibly lengthened because when the light left many yrs ago space was smaller, now it...- pforeman
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- Doppler Light
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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B Understanding the Doppler Effect at an Angle
hello everyone How is the sound Doppler effect formula in the case where the movement of the source and the observer is at an angle?- abdossamad2003
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- Angle Doppler Doppler effect
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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B Doppler effect on electromagnetic waves in a car
Is the doppler effect on electromagnetic waves receive by cell phone in fast car and so somebody talk with cell phone in fast car view this effect- abdossamad2003
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- Car Doppler Doppler effect Electromagnetic Electromagnetic waves Waves
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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I Does dividing maximum frequency by sound frequency give accurate velocity?
Hello everyone! I'm watching a Walter Lewin lecture and it seems to me at least that he is dividing maximum frequency of the sound by sound frequency of the transmitter to derive velocity of the transmitter, does this work? It seems that quantity would be dimensionless and velocity obviously...- Chenkel
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- Doppler Doppler effect Frequency
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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I Formula for Doppler effect in moving medium?
Hi, I know the usual formula for both moving source and receiver in a static medium (from wiki): Is ir correct? What about when the medium is moving too? I can't seem to find an answer, and worst, I'm finding contradicting ones. For example, when the source and the receiver are moving at the...- xxxyyy
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- Doppler Doppler effect Formula Medium
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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How to Determine the Sign of the Doppler Shift?
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- Doppler System
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Calculating Doppler Frequency Shift for Ultrasonic Waves
Answer;- nao113
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- Doppler Frequency Shift
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I Doppler Analysis of Twin Experiment: Valid Argument?
in a discussion on the twin experiment, I read that an author (Darwin) proposed that the non-inertial traveler twin sees the transition between the redshifts and blueshifts at the very moment when he turns around, while the inertial twin sees this transition with a delay, which means that for...- Kairos
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- Analysis Doppler Experiment
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I Deriving Doppler Effect Frequency w/ Stationary Person & Moving Source
Can you derive the formula for frequency observed from doppler effect with stationary person and moving sound source away from the person like this: ##v_t = v + v_s## where ##v_t## is the total velocity observed by stationary person from moving sound, v is velocity of sound and ##v_s## is... -
I Energy conservation in Doppler (NOT cosmological) redshifts?
Hi all, My question is about Doppler redshifts, but I'm going to mention cosmological redshifts first because I'm a lay person as far as cosmology's concerned (I'm an amateur astronomer and did a few introductory astrophysics/cosmology courses at university, but my degree focus was planetary...- Amaterasu21
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- Conservation Cosmological Doppler Doppler effect Energy Energy conservation
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I Ship Braking: Blue or Red Doppler Shift?
Let's imagine we have a ship heading towards our planet. It fires forward thrusters to brake. The ship is long way away. Because the ship decelerates, (slows down towards us) would we see particles from its exhaust doppler shifted blue or red? On the one hand the gas is flying towards Earth, so...- Albertgauss
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- Braking Doppler Doppler shift Shift Ship
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I Time Dilation vs. Doppler Effect: Similarities & Differences
Does time dilation in Special Relativity relate to the Doppler effect? If you move near the speed of light you experience time differently and the sound is stretched. Are these similar phenomenon?- BadgerBadger92
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- Dilation Doppler Doppler effect Relativity Special relativity Time Time dilation
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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I Relativistic Doppler Effect near a Black Hole
Hey everyone, if I were to view a shining person rotating near a black hole at near the speed of light there would be 2 kinds of redshifts: gravitational redshift and relativistic doppler effect redshift. Right? But, say at some point, the person is traveling towards me, then the doppler effect...- appot89
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- Black hole Doppler Doppler effect Hole Relativistic
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I Sound and apparent wind -- Any Doppler effect?
If two cars are driving side by side at the same speed, their relative speed is zero but do they nonetheless perceive a sound Doppler effect from the other car's siren because of the apparent headwind generated by their speed?- Kairos
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- Doppler Doppler effect Sound Wind
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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I Phase Speed of Wave in non-relativistic Doppler Shift Derivation
Consider the situation where an observer at rest on the ground measures the frequency of a siren which is moving away from the observer at speed ##v_{Ex}##. Let ##v_w## be the speed of the sound wave. Let ##\lambda_0##, ##f_0##, ##\lambda_D##, and ##f_D## be the wavelengths and frequencies...- unified
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- Derivation Doppler Doppler shift Phase Shift Speed Wave
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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Doppler shift between a moving ship on the ocean and a satellite in LEO
Summary:: I would like to calculate the Doppler shift for a signal sent by a moving ship to a moving satellite. I want to calculate the frequency observed by an LEO satellite when a signal is transmitted from a moving ship. The LEO satellite has a velocity of 7120m/s and orbits at a height of...- nicolewreyford
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- Doppler Doppler shift Ocean Relative velocity Satellite Shift Ship
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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B Doppler Shift of Neutron: Energy & Momentum
When a photon emitted by a distant galaxy travels across space and is detected at a later time when the universe has expanded by a factor of 2, its wavelength, frequency, energy and momentum are all changed by a factor of 2. If a neutron is emitted with energy E and momentum p and is also...- J O Linton
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- Doppler Doppler shift Neutron Shift
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A How Does the Anomalous Doppler Effect Work?
From what I understand, the anomalous Doppler effect can occur when a charged particle moves through a medium faster than light would move through that medium; however in the paper, The Doppler Effect in a Warm Uniaxial Plasma, it mentions that this effect can occur when a dipole moves faster...- Flamel
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- Doppler Doppler effect Negative energy Work
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The relativistic Doppler effect
I found the observed frequency from the energy. Then I used the receding Doppler shift formula to find, the source frequency but after that when i tried to use the Rydberg equation I got a value for the energy level less than one. and I'm pretty sure my work is right, any help is greatly...- help I have 12 hours
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- Doppler Doppler effect Relativistic
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Doppler question - find the observed frequency
So first I calculate the final velocity by multiplying the time by the acceleration, 9.8, to get 88.2 m/s. Now I use the equation. (343/(343-(-88.2))*108.3 = 86.1477. But the answer should be 88.47. What am I doing wrong here?- JoeyBob
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- Doppler Frequency Observed
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B Doppler effect in moving medium?
Hi there, here's the problem: There's a sound, with a certain frequency coming, from a source. Both the listener and the source are fixed in a inertial reference frame. But there's wind blowing from the source to the listener. Now, this situation isn't the same as the listener chasing the...- xxxyyy
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- Doppler Doppler effect Medium
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Understanding the Doppler Effect: Solving the Bat Problem
I'm struggling a lot with this problem on the Doppler effect. I understand the first step which is to treat the bat as the source of the emitted sound, giving And the second to treat the bat now as the observer, but instead of using f_b on the left the solution involves setting both...- physicsfan999
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- Doppler Doppler effect
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I Doppler effect - can't imagine how the frequency of light can change
AM/FM radio stations, cell phone towers transmit signals at certain frequencies. How can the frequency of a signal change depedning on whether the receiver is moving towards or away from the source? I thought that the frequency of an electromagnatic wave is determined at the source (the energy...- musicgold
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- Change Doppler Doppler effect Frequency Light
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Doppler effect in Special relativity -- Solution verification
I am assuming that B is a stationary observer here. For the first part of the trip, using the formula, rocket A is approaching B at velocity $$v_A$$ =0.6 c. The length that A travels is $$L_A = v_A t_1 $$ where $$t_1 = $$ 6 hrs. For the first part of the trip, B is receiving signals at a rate...- romanski007
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- Doppler Doppler effect Relativity Special relativity
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I What is the four-momentum of a photon?
I'm trying to understand the Energy-Momentum relativistic relationships for a light particles. It is commonly said that the Energy of a photon depends on the observer by the relationship ## E = - \mathbf{p} \cdot \mathbf{u}## where p is the 4-momentum of the source emitting light particles and u...- jbergman
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- Doppler Doppler effect Doppler shift Photons Shift Special relativity
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I Velocity Addition and Doppler Effect: Explained
The Doppler effect of light corresponds to the classical Doppler effect corrected by time dilation, but the first one is obtained with classical velocity additions (c+v at the front of the source and c-v at the back) whereas velocity addition of special relativity gives c at the front and c at...- Kairos
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- Addition Doppler Doppler effect Velocity Velocity addition
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Doppler effect and beat frequency
Summary:: Two speakers A and B are at rest, and a listener L stays on the line that connects the two speakers (see picture). The speakers have almost the same frequency. Assume that the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s. When the listener is at rest, he/she hears beats with frequency 6 Hz. The...- Kolika28
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- Beat frequency Doppler Doppler effect Frequency
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Find the altitude and the speed of two jets with Doppler Effect
Being honest, I couldn't do any works for this problem... (even couldn't start...) Does anyone can help me for solving this...? Thank you!- Edel Crine
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- Altitude Doppler Doppler effect Jets Speed
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Doppler effect and hydrogen alpha distributions
https://www.asi.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PhysicsASOE2014solutions.pdf q 14b) i) Assuming that the planet is rotating at a constant rate, shouldn't the distribution be even across all wavelengths, or do I have something very wrong with my model. I take the graph as the summation of...- aspodkfpo
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- Alpha Distributions Doppler Doppler effect Hydrogen
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Changing of frequencies in the Doppler effect
I am trying to figure out why the relativity don't get in the doppler effect, that is, why can't we apply the "galileo transformations" in doppler effect? OBS: i am not saying about doppler effect relativistic (using Lorentz transformation) In another words, i am moving in direction to a source...- LCSphysicist
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- Doppler Doppler effect Frequencies
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Doppler radar measurement by an aircraft
u is the aircraft speed. c is light speed f is the initial frequency λ is the initial wavelength λ' is the apparent wavelength λƒ = u +λ'ƒ λƒ = u + (c/ƒ')*ƒ c = u + (c/ƒ')*ƒ u = c(1-(ƒ/ƒ')) u = 1500m/s The answer is half of it, where is my error?- LCSphysicist
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- Aircraft Doppler Measurement Radar
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B Is the Doppler Effect Formula Different for Sources in Different Regions?
If the source is at ##(t,0)## in ##S## and the receiver is at ##(t',0)## in ##S'## which moves at ##\beta_x## w.r.t. ##S##, then by considering two crests at ##(0,0)## and ##(T_s, 0)## in the source frame ##S## and transforming these events into ##S'## we can derive that ##\lambda_{r} =...- etotheipi
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- Convention Doppler Doppler effect
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Doppler effect - two airplanes flying towards each other
I found it confusing since there is only "mutual" speed of both aircrafts and hence I do not know how to correctly put it into the common Dopplers formula...- Ondyman
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- Airplanes Doppler Doppler effect
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I How to measure a 21 cm EM wave if it is Doppler shifted?
we know that all emission from asctrophysical context is doppler shifted. So, how to make sure the doppler shifted 21 cm not contaminated by some other emission?- atomiclaser
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- Doppler Doppler shift Em Em wave Measure Wave
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How Far Would a Galaxy Be with a Speed of c?
(a) How far would a galaxy be whose speed with respect to the Earth is ##c##? Would it be observable from the Earth? r=rα=1.5⋅1026 m =1.6⋅1010 lightyears<4.65⋅1010 lightyearsr=rα=1.5⋅1026 m =1.6⋅1010 lightyears<4.65⋅1010 lightyearsr=rα=1.5⋅1026 m =1.6⋅1010 lightyears<4.65⋅1010 lightyears...- PhDeezNutz
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- Doppler Doppler shift Hubble's law Law Shift
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Doppler effect and how it affects the light spectrum
Looking for a beginners explanation to the following question: How is Doppler effect separated from the original spectrum of light emanating from a moving body (in astronomy or other physics branches)? If the question does not make sense, here is the reasoning to ask it: If a certain color is... -
Deriving the Relativistic Transverse Doppler Effect (Circular Motion)
**I realize some of my inline math delimiters '\(' and '\)' are not acting on the text for some reason, and it looks clunky. I spend 20-30 minutes trying to understand why this is, but I can't. My limited LaTeX experience is in Overleaf, and these delimiters work fine in that compiler. My...- stephenklein
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- Circular motion deriving Doppler Doppler effect Motion Relativistic Transverse
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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How to link frequency and speed? Doppler effect
I had many attempts on trying to solve this one, but I got always stuck in the problem-solving part: how do I manage to find the source-speed from the Doppler formula, in an analytical way, and then reach to the result-formula? Anyway, I'm pretty sure the only formula needed to solve this...- greg_rack
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- Doppler Doppler effect Frequency Link Speed
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B Some questions about the Doppler Effect at high velocities
Hey all. Question 1: Let's say we start with a red wavelength photon, that is absorbed by an atom and raises the atom to an excited state. The atom is then accelerated. After reaching a high velocity (say 0.1c), the photon is emitted. I would have thought that the energy of the emitted photon...- neanderthalphysics
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- Doppler Doppler effect
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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B Help with understanding the Doppler effect
My answer on this question for now is that producing a waves in the medium is an event which is basically must be invariant in the any of frame of references. For an example: a brick is freely falling, then the brick suddenly splinted into two pieces — no matter from which frame will we observe...- frostysh
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- Doppler Doppler effect Wavelength
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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How to Solve a Doppler Effect Problem with a Moving Vehicle and Siren at Rest
Pretending the siren is at rest in air: Wavelength = velocity/frequence --> (343 m/s) / 10,000 Hz = .0343m. I don't believe this is the correct way to go about solving the problem, since the vehicle is moving at the start and the siren is not at rest.- jariz
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- Doppler Doppler effect Frequency Velocity Wavelength
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B Doppler Effect: Light Blueshifted When Source Moving Towards Observer
If I and the light source are both moving toward one another, I see light blueshifted. What if I'm at rest and the source moving towards me?- kent davidge
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- Doppler Doppler effect Observer
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity