A man is moving towards a wall with a source of sound in his hand. Frequency of source = 50Hz. Speed of man = 8m/s. If the man sends one pulse of sound, what will be the frequency heard by him after sound reflects off the wall? Speed of sound = 330m/s.

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The Doppler effect or Doppler shift is the apparent change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer moving relative to the wave source. It is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who described the phenomenon in 1842


A man is moving towards a wall with a source of sound in his hand. Frequency of source = 50Hz. Speed of man = 8m/s. If the man sends one pulse of sound, what will be the frequency heard by him after sound reflects off the wall? Speed of sound = 330m/s.