What is the Doppler effect?

Oct 20, 2022 · 1m 45s
What is the Doppler effect?
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Doppler effect From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Waves caused by a moving object cause a doppler effect The Doppler effect is a change...

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Doppler effect
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Waves caused by a moving object cause a doppler effect
The Doppler effect is a change in frequency and wavelength of a wave. It is caused by the change in distance between the thing creating the wave (causer) and whatever is measuring seeing or hearing the wave (watcher or observer).

Another word for "causer" is "sender" or "source". Another word for "change in distance" is "speed" or "relative velocity". A common example is sitting in a car while another car goes by the watcher. The watcher will hear a change in pitch, while the sender will not.

For waves read all the waves that can send out or reflected by an object. And for reflection read change of direction of a wave.

Effects of changes in distance
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If observer and creator of the wave get closer, the frequency is higher and the wavelength is shorter.

For light, this causes a shift in colour towards the blue end of the spectrum called a blue shift. The faster something is moving toward us, the greater the blue shift.
For sound, this causes the sound to become higher in pitch
If the distance between the observer and creator gets longer, the frequency is lower and the wavelength is longer.

For light, this causes a shift towards the red end of the spectrum called a red shift, the faster something is moving away, the greater the red shift.
For sound, this causes the sound to become lower in pitch.
Light waves can also be read, examples are:

Microwaves
Radio waves
An extreme example of the doppler effect is an aeroplane flying at a faster speed than the speed of sound and how the wall of sound is heard on the ground.

Doppler effect. (2022, October 12). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:48, October 17, 2022 from https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doppler_effect&oldid=8485073.
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