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Suppose you hear a car approaching and its horn is heard as a 3037. Hz tone....

Suppose you hear a car approaching and its horn is heard as a 3037. Hz tone. After passing, you hear 2430. Hz. (a) What was the Mach number of the car?

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Doppler effect equation for moving source and stationary observer,  

Observed frequency,

On approaching,   AND On passing,  

Taking the ratio,

Dividing numerator and denominator by ' v '

That is ,    

Mach number is the Ratio of velocity of the body ( ) to the velocity of sound ( ) . That is,

here, f'1 = 3037 Hz and f'2 = 2430 Hz,

Substituting,

Rearranging,

  

genius_generous answered 2 years ago
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