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Doppler Effect
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The Doppler effect is the change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source, commonly heard as the change in pitch of a passing siren.
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1. Doppler Effect (Wikipedia)
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The Doppler effect is the change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source.
1. Doppler Effect (Wikipedia)
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The effect is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842.
1. Doppler Effect (Wikipedia)
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The effect is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842.
1. Doppler Effect (Wikipedia)
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Doppler first proposed this effect in 1842 in his treatise Uber das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels (On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens).
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