Question

When a police officer receives information that you are speeding in your vehicle, she is using the ______________ of the wave to measure the Doppler Effect.
a. amplitude
b. refraction
c. frequency
d. resonance

Answer 1

I think the corect answer would be C. When a police officer receives information that you are speeding in your vehicle, she is using the frequency of the wave to measure the Doppler Effect. As the speed of a vehicle increases, the greater the change of the frequency of the waves would be transmitted to the radar guns which is being used by the police officer. Doppler effect is an effect that is observed in sound and light waves as these waves move away or to the direction of the observer. This is being used in many applications like in astronomy, weather balloons, the radar guns,and for underwater researches.