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A bat flying at 5.00 m/s is chasing an insect flying in the same direction. If the bat emits a 40.0-kHz chirp and receives back an echo at 40.4 kHz, (a) what is the speed of the insect? (b) Will the bat be able to catch the insect? Explain.
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VerifiedIn this problem, a bat flies with speed . It emits a chirp at frequency . The sound is reflected by a wall. We calculate the frequency of the echo observed by the bat.
Let's remember the formula for Doppler's shift:
where is the frequency received, is the frequency transmitted, the observer's speed, positive when moving towards the towards the receiver, and the speed of the source.
Here is the : there will be a Doppler shift twice in our case!
At first, the bug receives a Doppler shifted signal, according to
The frequency the bat will receive back will be - since was the bat's speed and the bug's:
Combining these, we get
We'll rearrange as
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