Speed of light for different observers

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sisoev said:
This "home work" just shows how deceived people are about wave length and wave frequency.
600 nm in the "home work" is the wave length and it never changes.
:rolleyes:
The frequency is measured in Hz and it depends on the speed of the light - how fast the wave length is observed, and that depends on the additional speed added to it by the moving source or moving observer.
That's not even true for the classical Doppler effect for sound when the source is moving, never mind for light! When a sound source approaches, the observed frequency increases--yet the speed of the sound doesn't change.

When we observer different frequency, we must be able to calculate the wave length (which never changes), but that is impossible without knowing the velocity and add it to the speed of the light.
I already pointed to this in my previous comment but you chose not to comment on it.
You're wrong, as I've said repeatedly.

I still have my last comment coming.
Please read the sticky at the top of this forum--the one titled "IMPORTANT! Read before posting". In part, it says:
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You don't seem to be interested in learning about relativity, just in discussing your own personal interpretation. You've had your time. This thread is done.