Doppler effect

Example Sentences

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This Doppler effect is illustrated by the whistle of an approaching train.

From New York Times

Outside, ambulances raced by carrying people who shouldn't have been infected, their sirens trilling in a bleak and seemingly constant display of the Doppler effect.

From Salon

And that gives astronomers a way to find them, using the Doppler effect.

From Scientific American

That phenomenon, known as the Doppler effect, is similar to the changing pitch of train whistles and police sirens as they speed by.

From New York Times

Mueller studies bat behaviors, including their adaptations to the Doppler effect or Doppler shift.

From Scientific American