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A railroad train is traveling at 30.0 m/s in still air. The frequency of the note emitted by the train whistle is 352 Hz. What frequency is heard by a passenger on a train moving in the opposite direction to the first at 18.0 m/s and (a) approaching the first and (b) receding from the first?

Short Answer

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a) 405.8Hz is the frequency heard by the passengers when approaching the first.

b) 306.9Hz is the frequency heard by the passengers when receding the first.

Step by step solution

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Step 1:

Given data:

As by the doppler effect:

fL=v+vLv+vSfS

fL=Frequency observed by the listener

v=speed of sound

localid="1664338838251" vL=speed of listener

fs=frequency of source

vs= speed of the source of sound

And here vLis positive as the velocity of listener from Listener to Source and vsis positive as the velocity of source from Listener to Source and velocity is negative.

The frequency of the sound heard by the listener is not the same as the source frequency when the source and listener are moving relative to each other.

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Step 2:

a) Here, vLis positive as listener moving towards the source and vsis negative as source is moving towards the listener.

So, putting the formula;

fL=v+vLv+vSfS=344m/s+18m/s344m/s-30m/s352Hz=405.8Hz

Hence, 405.8Hz is the frequency heard by the passengers when approaching the first.

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Step 3:

b) Here, vLis negative as listener moving away from the source and vsis positive as source is moving away from the listener.

so, putting the value;

fL=v+vLv+vSfS=344m/s-18m/s344m/s+30m/s352Hz=306.9Hz

Hence, 306.9Hz is the frequency heard by the passengers when receding the first.

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