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A bat is flitting about in a cave, navigating via ultrasonic beeps. Assume that the sound emission frequency of the bat is 40 kHz. During one fast swoop directly towards a flat wall surface, the bat is moving at 0.03 times the speed of the sound in air. What frequency does the bat hear reflected off the wall?
Solution:
Here, , speed of sound in air, ∴ speed of bat
The bat moving towards wall acts as a moving source and for the sound waves reflected from the wall, it acts as a moving observer. Thus the source and observer are approaching each other with same speed. i.e. Thus apparent frequency of the reflected sound waves heard by the bat is given by

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