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Doppler's effect

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A bus B is moving with a velocity vB in the positive x-direction along a road as shown in the figure. A shooter ‘S ’ is at a distance l from the road. He has a detector which can detect signals only of frequency 1500Hz. The bus blows horn of frequency 1000 Hz. When the detector detects a signal the shooter immediately shoots towards the road along SC and the bullet hits the bus. Find the velocity of the bullet if velocity of sound in air is v = 340 m/s and VBV=233

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Solution

Let the bus be at O when it sends a signal that is detected by the detector as of frequency = 1500 Hz
 f=vvvBcosθ×1000=1500 cosθ=32θ=30
By the time signal reaches at S the bus reaches at D.
Let this time be t0
 t0=OSv=cosecθv…………….(1)
Now man fires and the bullet reaches C in time t1 (say). In the same time bus moves from D to C
 t1=1u; where u= speedofbullet 
Also, OD + DC = lcotθ
    vBt0+vBt1=Icotθ    vBIcosecθv+vB(l/u)=Icotθ    233×2+233vu=3     vu=52     u=25v=25×340=00136.00m/s



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