Mission SM4: The Doppler Effect

Mission SM4 pertains to the phenomenon of the Dopper Effect. The mission consists of 29 questions organized into 8 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
 

Learning Outcome

• The student should be able to describe the Doppler effect and its underlying causes.

 

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Getting Help

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The Physics Classroom, Sound and Music Unit, Lesson 3, Part b

• What is the Doppler effect?
• When does the Doppler shift occur?
• What does the Doppler shift involve?
• Why does the Doppler shift occur?
• In terms of the Doppler shift, how is the movement of a source of sound towards an observer different than the movement away from the observer?
• What pattern of wavefronts might be observed for a sound source moving towards an observer (or away from an observer)?
• Does the Doppler effect apply only to sound waves?

 

Video Tutorials:

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Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: