Doppler effect of approaching train · CAP 2006 #16

Physics

Problem

You stand on a platform at a train station and listen to a train horn as the train approaches the station at a constant velocity. While the train approaches, but before it arrives, you hear: (a) the intensity and the frequency of the sound both increasing; (b) the intensity and the frequency of the sound both decreasing; (c) the intensity increasing and the frequency decreasing; (d) the intensity decreasing and the frequency increasing; (e) the intensity increasing and the frequency remaining the same;

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