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A moving source tends to compress the sound waves in the direction it is moving. Is this true or false?
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A moving source tends to compress the sound waves in the direction it is moving. Is this true or false?

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According to the Doppler Effect, a moving sound source produces sound waves with a shorter wavelength in the direction it is moving and sound waves with a larger wavelength in the opposite direction, as the diagram shows.

Therefore, the answer is:


\text{True}

A moving source tends to compress the sound waves in the direction it is moving. Is-example-1
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