Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 25 - Electromagnetic Waves - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 901: 22

Answer

$672.0nm$

Work Step by Step

The wavelength emitted by the Enterprise can be determined as $f^{\prime}=f(1+u/c)$ $\frac{c}{\lambda^{\prime}}=\frac{c}{\lambda}(1+u/c)$ This simplifies to: $\lambda=\lambda^{\prime}(1+\frac{u}{c})$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\lambda=670.3(1+\frac{782.5\times 10^3}{3.0\times 10^8})$ $\lambda=672.0nm$
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