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A quick follow up on the previous Doppler post

by Kurt Knecht | Apr 8, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized

Dr. Weiss wrote back and asked if it would be possible to produce any major (or minor) chord of higher or lower frequency using the Doppler shift.(You can read the previous post here.)The problem with this is that once we hit 340 m/s, we are at the sound barrier. As I...

Tying alto sax players to trains to explain the Doppler shift

by Kurt Knecht | Apr 7, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized

A physician friend phoned me the other day with an interesting problem. He was discussing the Doppler shift with some physics friends. They wondered if it was possible to hear a chord shift from major to minor due to the Doppler shift. If you don’t know anything about...

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