A listener at rest (with respect to the air and the ground) hears a signal of frequency f1 from a source moving toward him with a velocity of 15 m/s, due east. If the listener then moves toward the approaching source with a velocity of 25 m/s, due west, he hears a frequency f2 that differs from f1 by 37 Hz.What is the frequency of the source? (Take the speed of sound in air to be 340 m/s.)
Properties of sound
A sound wave is a mechanical wave (or mechanical vibration) that transit through media such as gas (air), liquid (water), and solid (wood).
Quality Of Sound
A sound or a sound wave is defined as the energy produced due to the vibrations of particles in a medium. When any medium produces a disturbance or vibrations, it causes a movement in the air particles which produces sound waves. Molecules in the air vibrate about a certain average position and create compressions and rarefactions. This is called pitch which is defined as the frequency of sound. The frequency is defined as the number of oscillations in pressure per second.
Categories of Sound Wave
People perceive sound in different ways, like a medico student takes sound as vibration produced by objects reaching the human eardrum. A physicist perceives sound as vibration produced by an object, which produces disturbances in nearby air molecules that travel further. Both of them describe it as vibration generated by an object, the difference is one talks about how it is received and other deals with how it travels and propagates across various mediums.
A listener at rest (with respect to the air and the ground)
hears a signal of frequency f1 from a source moving toward him
with a velocity of 15 m/s, due east. If the listener then moves toward
the approaching source with a velocity of 25 m/s, due west, he hears
a frequency f2 that differs from f1 by 37 Hz.What is the frequency of
the source? (Take the speed of sound in air to be 340 m/s.)
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