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A car moving with a velocity of 36 km/h crosses a siren of frequency 500 Hz. The apparent frequency of siren after passing it will be

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530 HZ
485 Hz
540 Hz
460 Hz

Solution :Velocity of the car `=(36000 m)/(3600 s) = 10 m//s`
`v_("EMITTED") = 500 Hz, v_("SOUND") = 330 m//s`
`v_("obs") =v_("emitted") xx (v_("sound" -v_("obs"))/v_("sound"))`
Observed frequency `v_("obs") = 500 xx ((330-10)/330)`
`rArr v_("obs") = 484 Hz`


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