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  1. A speeding motorcyclist sees trafic jam ahead of him. He slows down to 36 km/hour. He finds that traffic has eased and a car moving ahead of him at 18 km/hour is honking at a frequency of 1392 Hz. If the speeds of sound is 343 m/s, the frequency of the honk as heard by him will be :
    1. 1332 Hz
    2. 1372 Hz
    3. 1412 Hz
    4. 1464 Hz
Correct Option: C

According to Doppler's effect
Apparent frequency

n' = n
v - v0
= 1392
343 - 10
= 1412 Hz
v - vs343 + 5



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