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A year ago I posted about observing clocks on
a very fast locomotive moving between two fixed stations and how the need to see the same amount of blue or redshift from each station would lead to the requirement the moving clock would record less time than the station clocks. Now I have tried it with sound. If the moving train emits a tone going at half the speed of sound between two stations I find the distant station will hear a period of sound that was emitted while the train was stationary then will hear it at twice the frequency while coming. But the train driver would hear the same tone from the fixed distant station at one and a half times the frequency while he moves. Its surprising, the principle of relativity is so engrained and I never learned this about sound. The sound of crossing bells on a train heard in so many old films must have a higher pitch if put on the train and heard at the crossing! Ever been tried? |
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This isn't the principle of relativity, this is Doppler shift.
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