8. You're gonna need a bigger boat... A boat moving eastward at 19.4 knots (10m/s) is monitoring an approaching object using its sonar (SOund NAvigation and Ranging) operating at 15.0 kHz. The speed of sound in sea water at the time of the reading is 1515 m/s. What is the speed of the unkown object if the sonar receives an echo of 15.6 kHz. Vs = 10 fo=15000 Hz %3D 10 m/s V = 1515 Vo = ?
Properties of sound
A sound wave is a mechanical wave (or mechanical vibration) that transit through media such as gas (air), liquid (water), and solid (wood).
Quality Of Sound
A sound or a sound wave is defined as the energy produced due to the vibrations of particles in a medium. When any medium produces a disturbance or vibrations, it causes a movement in the air particles which produces sound waves. Molecules in the air vibrate about a certain average position and create compressions and rarefactions. This is called pitch which is defined as the frequency of sound. The frequency is defined as the number of oscillations in pressure per second.
Categories of Sound Wave
People perceive sound in different ways, like a medico student takes sound as vibration produced by objects reaching the human eardrum. A physicist perceives sound as vibration produced by an object, which produces disturbances in nearby air molecules that travel further. Both of them describe it as vibration generated by an object, the difference is one talks about how it is received and other deals with how it travels and propagates across various mediums.
I don't know how to do this. I know it the Doppler effect but because of the echo I am confused. Thanks a lot!
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