If you are standing on the ground and a jet traveling faster than the speed of sound passes by as someone inside is talking on a megaphone that is louder than the engine is the sound heard backwards?

Answer 1

Yes could be heard. Because the source of sound is moving but medium through which sound is propagated is stable. "edit from madeuce"I understand you could be heard. There was not enough room to type the question fully. What I want to know is when you heard the sound would it come across as it was spoken, or would the sound come across distorted or backwards due to the Doppler effect. In short the sound from the first word spoken would be passed by the jet and the next word would be spoken in front of the sound waves from the first in respect to the observer on the ground. would you therefore here the last word spoken first in reverse followed by the second to last word spoken in reverse and so on until you heard the first word spoken in reverse? confusing I know but the Doppler effect says yes, others i have questioned have said no.