Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

Doppler effect?

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-27 16:39

There is a source and listener. There is a wind blowing in the direction from the source to the listener. Source makes sound. Would the frequency heard by the listener be higher or lower or the same? Does the Doppler effect come into play here?

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-27 17:07

Only the speed of sound changes, not the frequency. If the listenner was travelling with the wind the sound would have a lower pitch and he would measure the time it takes for the sound to reach him as the speed of sound.

If the wind was at the speed of sound and blowing from the listenner to the speaker, then the speaker would never hear the sounds as their effect would reach a quantum negligibility by the time the hurricane stopped and the vibrations through the air reached the listenner's ears.

Newer Posts
Don't change these.
Name: Email:
Entire Thread Thread List