Two aircraft are flying directly away from each other with equal speed. each aircraft emits a sound pulse which is picked up by the other air craft. what speed(km/hr) must each aircraft have in order that the arriving pulse has a frequency that is one fifth of the emitted frequency? Hint: the speed of sound is 343 m/s.



Answer :

Answer:

229 m/s

Explanation:

The Doppler effect is the phenomenon in which the sound frequency heard by an observer changes depending on the relative velocity of the source. The frequency of a sound wave is higher when the source is moving towards the receiver, and lower when the source is moving away. This is described by the Doppler equation:

[tex]\huge \text {$ f_r=f_s\ $}\Huge \text {$ \frac{c+v_r}{c+v_s} $}[/tex]

where:

  • [tex]\large \text {$ f_r $}[/tex] is the frequency heard by the receiver
  • [tex]\large \text {$ f_s $}[/tex] is the frequency emitted at the source
  • [tex]\large \text {$ c $}[/tex] is the speed of sound
  • [tex]\large \text {$ v_r $}[/tex] is the velocity of the receiver
  • [tex]\large \text {$ v_s $}[/tex] is the velocity of the source

Note: [tex]\large \text {$ v_r $}[/tex] is positive if the receiver is moving towards the source, negative if away.  

Conversely, [tex]\large \text {$ v_s $}[/tex] is positive if the receiver is moving away from the source, and negative if towards.

In this case, we are told that the frequency heard by the receiver is one-fifth the frequency emitted at the source.

[tex]\large \text {$ f_r = f_s / 5 $}[/tex]

We are also told that the planes are moving away from each other at equal speed.

[tex]\large \text {$ v_r = -v $}\\\large \text {$ v_s=v $}[/tex]

Finally, we are told that the speed of sound is 343 m/s.

[tex]\large \text {$ c=343\ m/s $}[/tex]

Substituting:

[tex]\large \text {$ f_s/5=f_s $}\LARGE \text {$ \frac{343-v}{343+v} $}\\\large \text {$ 1/5= $}\LARGE \text {$ \frac{343-v}{343+v} $}\\\large \text {$ 343+v=5(343-v) $}\\\large \text {$ 343+v=1715-5v $}\\\large \text {$ 6v=1372 $}\\\large \text {$ v\approx 229$}[/tex]

The speed of each plane is approximately 229 m/s.

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