This high school physics lesson focuses on the application of the Doppler effect to sound. Discusses what the Doppler effect is, offers examples of its occurrence, and explains what shock waves and sonic boom are.

Given diagrams, scenarios, or illustrations, students will identify the characteristics of the Doppler effect.

Use this learning module to explore the doppler effect. Learning module includes animations and videos to explain the concept.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate behaviors of waves, and explore the Doppler effect phenomenon.

By the end of this section, you will be able to define Doppler effect, Doppler shift, and sonic boom; calculate the frequency of a sound heard by someone observing Doppler shift; and describe the sounds produced by objects moving faster...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what the Doppler Effect is and how it occurs.

This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize how redshift suggests the universe is expanding.

How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.

In this module, students investigate the properties and behavior of different types of waves.

In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...

A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews waves including traveling waves, standing waves, resonance, speed of electromagnetic waves, Doppler shift, Doppler effect, interference,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of wave frequency and how it is related to the energy of a wave.

This page provides a summary of the content of each section of Chapter 17: Physics of Hearing from the AP Physics online text.