Doppler Effect in Light

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Doppler Effect in Light: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Doppler's Effect in Light Waves, Light Source Moving towards Stationary Observer, Light Source Moving away from Stationary Observer, Doppler Broadening, Application of Doppler's Effect, Radar, Sonar, etc.

Important Questions on Doppler Effect in Light

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Velocity of sound in air ______.
1. decreases with temperature
2. increases with temperature
3. increases with pressure
4. is independent of pressure
Which of the following are true?

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Doppler effect is independent of _____.

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In doppler effect 

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What is used to measure doppler line broadening.

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If a star emitting orange light moves away from the earth, its colour

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Wavelength of light from moving star observed on the earth is found to decrease by 0.05%. Relative to earth, star is

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Wavelength of Hα line in hydrogen spectrum is 656×10-9 m whereas wavelength of Hα line in the spectrum of a distant galaxy is 706 nm. Speed of galaxy w.r.t. earth is

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A plane electromagnetic wave of frequency w0 falls normally on the surface of a mirror approaching with a relativistic velocity υ . Then frequency of the reflected wave will be given β=υc

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Which of the following explain that all galaxies are receding from us?

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A star is moving away from Earth and shift in spectral line of wavelength 5700  is 1.90  . Velocity of the star is

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A star emitting radiations of wavelength 5000  is approaching earth with a velocity of 1.5×106 ms-1 . Change in wavelength of radiations as received on the earth is

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If a star is moving towards the earth, then the lines are shifted towards

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When the wavelength of light coming from a distant star is measured it is found shifted towards red. Then the conclusion is

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An observer is moving with half the speed of light towards a stationary microwave source emitting waves at frequency 10 GHz. What is the frequency of the microwave measured by the observer? (Speed of light =3×108 m s-1).

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What is the shift in the wavelength of a star emitting light of wavelength 5000 Ao and moving towards earth with a velocity of 1.5×106 m s-1?

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A plane electromagnetic wave of frequency w0 falls normally on the surface of a mirror approaching with a relativistic velocity υ . Then frequency of the reflected wave will be given β=υc

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Doppler shift for the light of wavelength 6000  emitted from the sun is 0.04 . If radius of the sun is 7×108 m then time period of rotation of the sun will be

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If the velocity of a galaxy relative to earth is 1.2×106 m s-1 then % increase in wavelength of light from the galaxy as compared to the similar source on earth will be

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A star is moving away from Earth and shift in spectral line of wavelength 5700  is 1.90  . Velocity of the star is

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The wavelength of Hα line in the hydrogen spectrum is found to be 6563  in the laboratory. If the velocity of the Milky way is 1.05×106 m s-1, then the wavelength of Hα line in the spectrum of Milky way will be