Imagine a bug

jiggling its legs and

bobbing up and
down in the middle
of a quiet puddle
What would happen
to the waves if the
bug began to swim
forward, toward B?
 What does that do
to the frequency of
the waves, in front
of the bug and
behind the bug?
In front of the bug…
the frequency ↑
Behind the bug…the
frequency ↓
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Pitch…. A man’s vocal chords
vibrate slower than a woman’s…
hence a lower voice=lower pitch
 The Doppler
effect causes
the changing
pitch of a siren

In front of the
car… the pitch ↑
Behind the car…
the pitch ↓
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www.youtube.com/
watch?
Note: The change in v=Y5KaeCZ_AaY
loudness is not the
Doppler Effect! It is
the shift in
frequency!
Police use the Doppler
effect of radar waves
to measure the speeds
of cars on the highway
2011, Aroldis Chapman
reached back and threw a
pitch to Andrew McCutchen
of the Pirates. The pitch
wound up being high and
tight, not a location
necessarily to be proud of,
and yet he received a
standing ovation.
Why the standing ovation,
you may ask? The stadium
radar reading displayed a
velocity of 106 MPH, a speed
that has only been topped
twice since baseball started
recording pitch velocities.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Y5KaeCZ_AaY
 Named after Christian Doppler (Austrian)
1803-1853
 Neither! It is the
When a source frequency of a
moves toward you, wave that
do you measure an undergoes a
increase or change, not the
decrease in wave wave speed.
speed?
  The sound waves
How does the become more
frequent
apparent
(compressed
frequency of
together).
waves change as a
wave source
moves?
 The sound waves
become less
frequent (stretched
apart).