You’ve just hired a new undergraduate research assistant to do all your number c

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You’ve just hired a new undergraduate research assistant to do all your number crunching for an exoplanet project, so you need to explain how the Doppler effect works. You borrow Dr. Woody’s noisemaker and spin it about your head. a. If you have set it to the frequency of middle C, 262 Hz, and spin the noisemaker with a period of 1 second on a string with length 2 m. What is the maximum frequency that the student hears? b. The student is horrified at this noise and runs away at 9 m/s, what is the new maximum frequency the student hears?

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You’ve just hired a new undergraduate research assistant to do all your number c

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