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Multiple Choice
A police radar gun used to measure the speed of cars emits an electromagnetic wave (a radio wave) with a frequency of In an area where the speed limit is what should be the shift in the frequency of the wave after reflecting off traffic that is exactly following the speed limit, driving toward the police officer?
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Understand the concept of the Doppler effect, which describes the change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to an observer moving relative to the wave source.
Identify the given values: the original frequency of the radar gun is 24 GHz, and the speed of the car is 30 m/s.
Use the formula for the Doppler effect for waves reflecting off a moving object: \( f' = f \left( \frac{c + v}{c} \right) \), where \( f' \) is the observed frequency, \( f \) is the emitted frequency, \( c \) is the speed of light, and \( v \) is the speed of the car.
Calculate the change in frequency \( \Delta f = f' - f \) using the values from the previous step.
Convert the change in frequency from Hz to kHz to match the options provided in the problem.