Why Light Experienced a Doppler Shift?

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robphy said:
Is the goal trying to get the OP to understand the situation by trying multiple methods (when one doesn’t work, try another ... and another...)
or
is the goal to find the most elegant answer with the fewest number of symbols?
In a B-level thread, it's the former.
 
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