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Bystander hears a siren; open organ pipe frequencies

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1. A bystander hears a siren vary in frequency from 476 Hz to 404 Hz as a fire truck approaches, passes by, and moves away on a straight street. What is the speed of the truck? (Take the speed of the sound in air to be 343 m/s)

2. An open organ pipe is 0.50 m long. If the speed of the sound is 340 m/s, what are the pipe's fundamental frequency and the frequencies of the first two overtones?

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An open organ pipe frequencies for bystanders hearing a siren is examined.

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1. A bystander hears a siren vary in frequency from 476 Hz to 404 Hz as a fire truck approaches, passes by, and moves away on a straight street. What is the speed of the truck? (Take the speed of the sound in air to be 343 m/s)
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Doppler's effect in sound
Doppler's effect is about apparent change in the frequency of sound as observed by an observer when the source of the sound and the observer are moving.

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