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What must be the relative speed between source and receiver if the wavelength of an EM wave as measured by the receiver is twice the wavelength as measured by the source? Are source and observer moving closer together or farther apart?

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Givens:\textbf{Givens:}

λo=2λs\lambda_o=2\lambda_s

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