Assignment

Topic: Doppler effect

Problem:

1. Suppose a train that has a 150 Hz horn is moving at 35 m/s in still air on a
day when the speed of sound is 340 m/s. (a) What frequencies are observed by
a stationary person at the side of the tracks as the train approaches and after
it passes? (b) What frequency is observed by the train’s engineer traveling on
the train?
2. What frequency is received by a person watching an oncoming ambulance
moving at 110 km/h and emitting a steady 800-Hz sound from its siren? The
speed of sound on this day is 345 m/s. (b) What frequency does she receive
after the ambulance has passed?

3. (a) At an air show a jet flies directly toward the stands at a speed of 1200
km/h, emitting a frequency of 3500 Hz, on a day when the speed of sound is
342 m/s. What frequency is received by the observers? (b) What frequency do
they receive as the plane flies directly away from them?

4. What frequency is received by a mouse just before being dispatched by a

hawk flying at it at 25.0 m/s and emitting a screech of frequency 3500 Hz?
Take the speed of sound to be 331 m/s.

5. A spectator at a parade receives an 888 Hz tone from an oncoming

trumpeter who is playing an 880 Hz note. At what speed is the musician
approaching if the speed of sound is 338 m/s?

6. A commuter train blows its 200-Hz horn as it approaches a crossing. The

speed of sound is 335 m/s. (a) An observer waiting at the crossing receives a
frequency of 208 Hz. What is the speed of the train? (b) What frequency does
the observer receive as the train moves away?

7. Two eagles fly directly toward one another, the first at 15.0 m/s and the
second at 20.0 m/s. Both screech, the first one emitting a frequency of 3200 Hz
and the second one emitting a frequency of 3800 Hz. What frequencies do they
receive if the speed of sound is 330 m/s?
8. A source of sound moving toward the stationary observer at 20 m/s. The
frequency of the source of the sound = 380 Hz. The speed of the
sound waves in air = 400 m s-1. What is the frequency of the sound waves
heard by the observer?

9. An observer at rest near the source of the sound of frequency 684 Hz.
Another the source of the sound of 676 Hz moving toward the observer at 2
n/s. If the speed of the sound waves in air is 340 m/s, then what is the beat
frequency heard by the observer?

10. Car A moves at 72 km/h and car B moves at 90 km/h, approach each
other. Car A honked with a frequency of 650 Hz. If the speed of the sound
waves in air is 350 m/s, then what is the frequency of sound heard by the
driver of car B from car A?

11. A source of sound moves at 10 m/s approach a stationary observer. The

frequency of the source of the sound is 380 Hz and the speed of the sound
waves in air is 400 m/s What is the frequency of the sound waves heard by the
observer?

12. A car moving toward a stationary observer that emits 490 Hz sound wave.
The beat frequency heard is 10 Hz. If the speed of the sound waves in air is
340 m/s, what is the speed of the car?

13. The police car that was ringing a 930 Hz siren chased after someone who
ran away on a motorcycle with a speed of 72 km/hour . The speed of police
cars reaches 108 km/hour. If the speed of sound in the air is 340 m/s, then find
the frequency of siren sounds heard by motorcyclists.

14. An ambulance moves at 72 km/h while sounding a siren with a frequency

of 1500 Hz. Motorcyclists move at speeds of 20 m/s in opposite directions with
ambulances. If the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, then find the ratio of
frequencies heard by motorcyclists when approaching and away from the
ambulance.

All are requested to submit the doc. file as well as pdf. file of the specific
assignment to sumon.physics@phy.kuet.ac.bd within 1 August, 2020.