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fznfire
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a Physics problem

Post by fznfire » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:03 am

According to Doppler's law, the movement of source and the movement of receiver will lead to different frequency. Does this violate relativity which says that the law in all inertial frames are the same?
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admissionprof
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Re: a Physics problem

Post by admissionprof » Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:23 pm

fznfire wrote:According to Doppler's law, the movement of source and the movement of receiver will lead to different frequency. Does this violate relativity which says that the law in all inertial frames are the same?
No. Only the relative velocity enters into the formula - you must be looking at the nonrelativistic version. This forum is not the appropriate place for this question...
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