Doppler Effect (in Sound)

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A warship is fitted with SONAR operating at a frequency of 42 kHz. A submarine is approaching the ship with a speed of 72 km hr-1. If the speed of sound is 1400 m s-1, what will be the frequency of the sound received after being reflected from the submarine?

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A source and an observer are situated on two perpendicular tracks as shown in the figure. The observer is at rest and the source is moving with a speed of 50 m s-1. The source emits a sound wave of frequency 75 Hz which travel in the medium with a velocity of 200 m s-1. The frequency (in Hz) of the sound heard by the observer when the source crosses the origin is,

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A police man on duty detects a drop of 15% in the pitch of the horn of a motor car as it crosses him. If the velocity of sound is 330 m s-1, calculate the speed of the car

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A person carrying a whistle emitting continuously a note of 272 Hz is running towards a reflecting surface with a speed of 18 km h-1. The speed of sound in air is 345 m s-1. The number of beats heard by him is:-

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The frequency of a radar is 780 MHz. The frequency of the reflected wave from an aeroplane is increased by 2.6 kHz. The velocity of the aeroplane in m s-1 is:

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Two cars moving in opposite directions approach each other with the speed of 22 m s-1 and 16.5 m s-1 respectively. The driver of the first car blows a horn having a frequency 400 Hz. The frequency heard by the driver of the second car is [velocity of sound 340 m s-1] (in Hz ):- ( Approximate the answer to nearest integer)

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Two cars moving in opposite directions approach each other with speed of 22 m s-1 and 16.5 m s-1 respectively. The driver of the first car blows a horn having a frequency 400 Hz. The frequency heard by the driver of the second car is [velocity of sound 340 m s-1]:

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A source on a swing that is covering an angle θ from the vertical is producing a frequency v. The source is distant d from the place of support of swing. If the velocity of sound is c, acceleration due to gravity is g, then the maximum and minimum frequency heard by a listener in front of swing is

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A boy is walking away from a stationary wall at a speed of 1 m/s and blows a whistle whose frequency is 680 Hz. The number of beats heard by the boy per second is (Velocity of sound in air=340 m/s)

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Two tuning forks A and B lying on opposite sides of observer O and of natural frequency 85 Hz move with velocity 10 m/s relative to a stationary observer O. Fork A moves away from the observer while the fork B moves towards him. Wind with a speed 10 m/s is blowing in the direction of motion of fork A. Find the beat frequency measured by the observer in Hz. (Take speed of sound in air as 340 m/s)

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A source and a detector both start moving simultaneously from the position shown in the figure, one along x-axis and the other along y-axis with speeds 40 m s-1 and 30 m s-1 respectively. If n is the frequency of the source then the graph between the apparent frequency n' observed by detector and time t would be [assume that source and detector do not collide]

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A source and an observer are situated on two perpendicular tracks as shown in the figure. The observer is at rest and the source is moving with a speed of 50 m s-1. The source emits a sound wave of frequency 75 Hz, which travel in the medium with a velocity of 200 m s-1. The frequency of the sound heard by the observer when the source crosses the origin

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