48) A motorcycle and a police car are moving toward one another. The police car emits sound with a frequency of 523 Hz and has a speed of 32.2 m/s. The motorcycle has a speed of 14.8 m/s. What frequency does the motorcyclist hear?

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ANSWER

[tex]602.1Hz[/tex]

EXPLANATION

To find the frequency that the motorcyclist hears, we have to apply the rules of the Doppler effect. Doppler effect describes the change in perceived frequency of a wave based on the observer and the source of the wave.

For an object moving toward the source of the wave, we have that the frequency is:

[tex]f^{\prime}=\frac{(v+v_0)}{(v-v_s)}f[/tex]

where v = velocity of sound waves

v0 = velocity of motorcyclist

vs = velocity of source of sound

f = frequency

Therefore, substituting the given values, we have that the frequency that the motorcyclist hears is:

[tex]\begin{gathered} f^{\prime}=\frac{343+14.8}{343-32.2}\cdot523 \\ f^{\prime}=\frac{357.8}{310.8}\cdot523 \\ f^{\prime}=602.1Hz \end{gathered}[/tex]

That is the answer.