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Doppler effect Teacher Resources
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Students evaluate the Doppler effect. In this Doppler lesson, students investigate Doppler radars and sound waves. Students log on to Second Life and complete Mr. Doppler's Wild Ride.
Eleventh graders investigate the Doppler effect as it relates to relative motion on frequency of a sound source. In this Doppler effect lesson, 11th graders assemble buzzer-battery devices, look for changes or lack of pitch in the sound waves emitted by the buzzers, and collect data. Students solve the Doppler effect problem and discuss details of their work and thought process.
High schoolers use an ordinary toy to reveal the Doppler effect. The connection is also made to moving cars, and to the shifting of the lines in the absorption or emission spectrum when the distance between a star and Earth is increasing or decreasing.
In this Doppler weather radar worksheet, students read about radar and Doppler weather radar and answer three questions about how they work and the Doppler effect.
In this Doppler effect worksheet, students read information about the Doppler effect. Students answer questions as it relates to the pitch and wavelengths of a demonstration simulates what happens with the Doppler Effect.
Students explore the Dollper effect by finding the frequency and velocity of sound. In this velocity lesson plan, students determine the impulse during a collision by using their data and a software program.
In this Doppler Effect instructional activity, students answer questions about the movement of stars and the reason we see differences in the color of the stars resulting in a red shift or a blue shift.
Play twenty questions with your physics class as they are learning about sound waves. Short answers and matching-style questions about the speed of sound in different media, characteristics of sound waves, and even the Doppler effect challenge learners to share what they have heard. This compact assignment would make a nice quiz.
Learners examine and explain how the distance to nearby stars can be measured by the parallax method, discuss the role of women in the history of American astronomy, form their own opinions of the importance of Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubble in the history of astronomy, and examine and explain the Doppler shift and especially the significance of the red-shift.
This is a stellar overview of everything light and quantum! There are 30 multiple choice questions, none of them requiring any mathematical computation. There are a few diagrams to analyze: light rays striking reflective and refractive materials, spectral lines, and more. You can use this comprehensive set of conceptual questions as an exam.