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Started by Moonraker, Apr 08 2012 05:52

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John Candy

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Well, as they say, the truth can be stranger than fiction!!!
I won't ask Keith what he was up to but perhaps Ralph can explain how a Swedish brass band came into the equation......I seem to recall that Doppler was Austrian.
Were the experiments carried out in Sweden?

Peter, I bet you didn't imagine that your original, simple, announcement would result in this degree of scientific debate!

Perhaps the G3S can apply for a Government grant, so that Ralph can conduct renewed experiments to determine the practicality of applying the Doppler effect in a scale context?

Regards,
John  :)
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cabbage

The answer is (as always) down to money... They were playing a tour and had run out of cash. Two (slightly) wet days  provided them with enough money to make it back home. The test was conducted by Buys Ballot is 1845. He confirmed that the sound's pitch was higher than the emitted frequency when the sound source approached him, and lower than the emitted frequency when the sound source receded from him.  In the final series of experiments a tuba played one note on the flat car and another tuba played the same note on the station. Then the beat frequency thus generated was noted(!) between the two instruments as the flat car arrived and departed.

As my late father was oft to quote: "there is the strange, the weird, the downright impossible -and then there is reality...."

regards

ralph

John Candy

Thank you Ralph.
A fascinating story.
Glad to know it's not only the British who are mad/eccentric!
Regards,
John.
My fellow Members, ask not what your Society can do for you, ask what you can do for your Society.