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How fast a person should drive his car so that the red signal of light appears green? (Wavelength for red colour=6200 Å and wavelength for green colour=5400 Å.)

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Important Questions on Wave Theory of Light

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With what speed should a galaxy move with respect to us so that a certain line at 674 nm is observed at 674.4 nm?

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The spectral line emitted by a star, has a wavelength of 6800 Å when observed from a lab appears to have a wavelength 6820 Å. Speed of star in the line of light relative to earth for receding or approach is given by

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If a source of light is moving away from a stationary observer, then the frequency of light wave appears to change because of
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Due to Doppler's effect the shift in wavelength observed is 0.1 Å for a star producing wavelength 6000 Å. Velocity of recession of the star will be
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The positive shift occurred in the wavelength of the light received from the star is 0.025%. What is the velocity of star in the line of light ?

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In the context of Doppler effect in light, the term red shift signifies
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Astronomers have observed that light coming from far away stars do not show the same spectrum as observed on Earth. Each wavelength is shifted slightly towards the red end of the spectrum. It is observed that the 1st line of Lyman series shows 121 nm on Earth, but from the star it shows 122 nm. The speed of the star with respect to Earth is close to
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A galaxy moves with respect to the earth so that Sodium line of 589.0 nm is observed at 589.6 nm. The speed of the galaxy is