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When a star is moving toward an observer what type of shift would they observe?
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What you get when stars are moving away?
When stars or galaxies are moving away from the observer, you will notice a redder shift in the color of the body.
Why doesn't the Doppler shift appear when an observer moves toward the source?
Doppler's effect does not happen when the observer is moving towards the source because unlike the source when observer moves forward the waves are not compressed and they pass the observer without being compressed and since the doppler effect is due to the Change in wavelength of the wave, it fails to occur.
Is it possible to move a source of sound relative to a stationary observer so that there is no shift in the frequency of the sound?
For the sound from a source not to be shift in frequency , the radial velocity of the source to the observer must be zero : that is the source must not be moving towards or away from the observer
If light always travels at the same speed how can its color shift to red due to the Doppler effect?
As you mention light speed is constant. Light speed equals to its wavelength times its frequency. c = lambda * freq As the light source travels toward the observer, in such high speeds comparable to the light speed relative to the observer, the later emitted light waves pile up behind the earlier emitted light waves as they all travel together toward the observer, causing a visible shift (higher) in the frequency of the received waves as seen by the observer.
When the wavelength of a spectral line emitted from an object increases which end of the visible light spectrum does not move toward and what is the objects motion relative to earth?
Increasing wavelength is an indication of a Doppler shift caused by an object moving away from the viewer. Longer wavelengths (of the visible spectrum) are redder, shorter wavelengths are bluer. Objects moving away from you have a red shift, objects moving toward you have a blue shift.
An apparent shift in the wavelength of light emmited by a light source moving toward or away from an observer is known as?
The Doppler Effect.
Would a light source moving away from Earth appear blue shifted or red shifted?
A red shift indicates an object that is moving away from the observer, and a blue shift indicates an object that is moving toward the observer. Both of these are called Doppler shifts.
How is the red shift different than the blue shift?
Radiation from a source moving away from the observer is red-shifted. Radiation from a source moving towards the observer is blue-shifted.
What causes a blue shift?
Radial motion of the source toward the observer.
How can the Doppler effect determine if things are moving towards a distant galaxy or away from one?
Light had properties of frequency that related to colour. It is apparently contract in the direction moving toward the observer (higher frequency-short wavelength) and apparently elongated in the direction moving away from observer (lower frequency-high wavelength). What moving toward us is tend to be look more blue than usual (blue shift) and what away from us is redder than usual (red shift).
When does redshift occur?
Red shift occurs when an object is moving away from the observer.
What causes the frequency of light from a moving object to change?
It is the Doppler effect that causes the apparent shift in the frequency of light or sound waves as the source and observer are moving farther apart or closer toward each other. Use the link below for more information.
Does a red shift indicates that objects are moving toward earth?
Red shift occurs when an object moves away from the observer. So as you are on Earth, it is when objects move away from Earth. (Blue shift as it moves closer.) A star's red shift could be due to losing energy to gravity.
What you get when stars are moving away?
When stars or galaxies are moving away from the observer, you will notice a redder shift in the color of the body.
What is the observed change in the frequency of a wave when either the source or observer is moving?
Doppler shift
A red shift in the spectrum of the light from an object indicates the object is moving where?
away from the observer.
Why doesn't the Doppler shift appear when an observer moves toward the source?
Doppler's effect does not happen when the observer is moving towards the source because unlike the source when observer moves forward the waves are not compressed and they pass the observer without being compressed and since the doppler effect is due to the Change in wavelength of the wave, it fails to occur.
