USAPhO 2016, Полуфинал — Задача 1. Question A1
USA Physics Olympiad Exam — Part A / Part B · 25 т.
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Условие
Part A
The Doppler effect for a source moving relative to a stationary observer is described by
where is the frequency measured by the observer, is the frequency emitted by the source, is the speed of the source, is the wave speed, and is the angle between the source velocity and the line between the source and observer. (Thus when the source is moving directly towards the observer and when moving directly away.)
A sound source of constant frequency travels at a constant velocity past an observer, and the observed frequency is plotted as a function of time:

The experiment happens in room temperature air, so the speed of sound is .
a. What is the speed of the source?
b. What is the smallest distance between the source and the observer?
Решение
a.
For we have
and for ,
Read and off the early and late time portions of the graph and use
giving an answer of .
Alternatively, we can see that and approximate
which makes the calculation of slightly faster. This is acceptable because the error terms are of order .
b.
Let be the (fixed) distance between the observer and the path of the source; let be the displacement along the path, with at closest approach. Then for ,
so we have
Taking the time derivative, and noting that is simply ,
Therefore we can read off the center region of the graph. We still need to find , which we can do using our result from part (a) or simply by averaging and , since , giving and an answer of .
There's also a nice trick to speed up this computation. Draw lines at the asymptotic values and through the central data points. The two horizontal lines are apart in frequency, so the time between their intersections with the third line is simply .
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