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Like the Doppler effect, the source of the waves is moving, this time in the same direction as the wave front and therefore catching up to the waves that were produced earlier, resulting in a bunching up effect of waves in front of the source and a spreading out of wave fronts behind the source. Does this look like a bow to you>

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