The Doppler Effect
Try this: Push the source past the speed of sound and find the shock cone.
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About this simulation
Watch a source outrun its own wavefronts, and read the pitch an observer actually hears.
Taught in The Doppler Effect
- Doppler effect
- wavefronts
- relative motion
- shock waves
How this runs
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