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  1. We call this lamda prime. Why? Because this is what Newton is going to hear when he gets run over. lol!

    I've been searching for an explanation of the frequency shift due to a moving source, and every video I've watched pretty much says that it just does. Your explanation makes is both very clear and understandable. Brilliant!

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

  2. nice presentation in general. recommendable for many reasons.One minor point…….when you say the frequency the guy on the pier sees, and the frequency he sees when he is in his boat…. well, i think it would be better to say … the frequency he feels on his feet or how he feels the boat bobbing up and down. This is much more definite than his visual experiences which are rich and varied… for example… the guy in the boat still SEES the little boy in his ring bobbing up and down with the same original frequency!! (classically).You need to specify we are interested in what frequency the man sees locally or better what he experiences locally. For example it could even be totally foggy and he still experiences the oscillating surface. That pinpoints what we are talking about.

  3. Was that example inspired by when you sat on a pier deciding whether to wet your feet and go rescue a kid screaming in the sea and you decided to do it but went back because of a Snicker pang?

  4. "The wavelength is measured the same by everybody."

    The same wavelength for both a stationary observer and one moving towards a LIGHT source? Be careful – your Divine Albert is in trouble. You could try to save him by explaining how the motion of the observer changes the wavelength of the incoming light so that the speed of the waves relative to the observer gloriously remains constant.

  5. Wow, so at the end, we practically hear nothing whatsoever if we move at the same speed as the emitting wave speed. That's like how we stay in a moving vehicle we hear nothing, but other people around us that are not moving can.

    I don't know but, that's just so.. I should stop and trapped myself in this amazement. 

  6. Correct in point 1 – we'd combine the effects of approaching observer and approaching source. Immediately after we pass the ambulance, though, we'd have to reverse the sign of u AND v in the equation. This would cause the apparent f to drop dramatically, and suddenly!

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