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Grade 12Wave Motion

a man standing on railway platform listening to the whistle of an engine tat passes the man at constant speed at time t'' .

Hoow does the frequency as heard by man changes wid time.

Sketch the graph of f vs t.

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15 Years agoGrade 12
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer15 Years ago

frequency heard by listener from t=0 (when train was approaching and was far apart ) to t=T (when train passes the listener) is constant & given by

f = fo(V/V-Vt)                      (Vt = speed of train, V speed of sound)

when train has passed the listener then frequency again becomes constant but now it is f1

f1 = fo(V/V+Vt)

now plot this graph by using these two eq