Sound is a form of energy. It is that form of energy which makes us hear. Sound wave is a vibratory disturbance in a medium which carries energy from one point to another without there being a direct ...

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Though many people may hear “Doppler Radar” as tool for tracking weather systems, it is used for much more and has roots in science dating back generations. The Doppler Effect, as it is known, is also ...

"Sound of siren sounds high when it approaches, it sounds low when going away" is often expressed by the word "Doppler effectIn fact, it is also used for exploring the universe. Astronomer Rad Milla ...

The Doppler effect is an observed change in pitch (how high or low a sound is) when either the source of the sound or the listener is in motion. Imagine a car, its horn blaring, approaching you as you ...

A video of scientists dropping ice into a really deep hole has gone viral because of the wobbly cartoon-spaceship sound the falling ice makes. Princeton University geochemist John Andrew Higgins ...

The International Isle of Man TT is a crazy motorcycle race. I mean—it's seriously ludicrous. They ride on public roads (yes, they are closed to normal traffic) such that you get these videos of bikes ...

Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral senses motion inputs using a combination of a depth sensor, RGB camera and a multi-array microphone. Now Microsoft’s research division, Microsoft Research, has developed ...

Physicists have generated a lot of excitement in recent years by dreaming up specially structured materials with novel applications like invisibility cloaks. What’s more, some of these “metamaterials” ...

Everyone has experienced the Doppler effect. An ambulance's siren has a higher pitch as it approaches you, and a lower pitch when moving away. Now, imagine that the pitch goes down as the ambulance ...