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Problem 50P

Hearing the siren of an approaching fire truck, you pull over to the side of the road and stop. As the truck approaches, you hear a tone of 460 Hz; as the truckrecedes, you hear a tone of 410 Hz. How much time will it take for the truck to get from your position to the fire 5.0 km away, assuming it maintains a constant speed?

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QUESTION:

Problem 50P

Hearing the siren of an approaching fire truck, you pull over to the side of the road and stop. As the truck approaches, you hear a tone of 460 Hz; as the truckrecedes, you hear a tone of 410 Hz. How much time will it take for the truck to get from your position to the fire 5.0 km away, assuming it maintains a constant speed?

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The frequency heard by the observer is given by,

\(v\) is the speed of the sound,  is the speed of the observer and  is the speed of the source.

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