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A train sounds its whistle at a constant frequency as it passes by the platform. Compared to the sound emitted by the whistle, the sound that people on the platform hear as the train moves away has a frequency
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A train sounds its whistle at a constant frequency as it passes by the platform. Compared to the sound emitted by the whistle, the sound that people on the platform hear as the train moves away has a frequency that is ...

-higher
-the same
-lower
-exactly half

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Answer: Higher.

Explanation: The doppler effect essentially. "The Doppler effect can be described as the effect produced by a moving source of waves in which there is an apparent upward shift in frequency for observers towards whom the source is approaching and an apparent downward shift in frequency for observers from whom the source is receding."

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