An observer is standing stationary in air moving at a speed of 2m/s. A source of frequency 20Hz is moving in the direction of wind with speed 10m/s towards the observer. What will be the frequency as heard by the observer? Speed of sound in air is 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


An observer is standing stationary in air moving at a speed of 2m/s. A source of frequency 20Hz is moving in the direction of wind with speed 10m/s towards the observer. What will be the frequency as heard by the observer? Speed of sound in air is 330m/s.