You are driving at 75 km/h. Your sister follows in the car behind at 75 km/h. When you honk your horn, your sister hears a frequency You are driving at 75. Your sister follows in the car behind at 75. When you honk your horn, your sister hears a frequency lower than the frequency you hear. higher than the frequency you hear. the same as the frequency you hear. You cannot tell without knowing the horn's frequency.

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Darren

18 August, 16:17

You are driving at 75 km/h. Your sister follows in the car behind at 75 km/h. When you honk your horn, your sister hears a frequency You are driving at 75. Your sister follows in the car behind at 75. When you honk your horn, your sister hears a frequency lower than the frequency you hear. higher than the frequency you hear. the same as the frequency you hear. You cannot tell without knowing the horn's frequency.

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Mariana Singleton · Answer 1

The ideal concept for solving this question is based on the Doppler effect, for which it is indicated that the source's listening frequency changes as the distance and the relative speed between the receiver and the transmitter are also changed. However, if the relative velocity between the two objects is zero as in the particular case presented (since both travel at 75km / h) we have that there will be no change in frequency.

Therefore the frequency that I hear and that my sister would listen would be the same.