Friday, June 2, 2017

Physics of Car Horns

 Physics of Car Horns




Abstract

Have you ever been "honked" at before? Have you noticed that the sound of a horn is different when the car is coming towards you and passing you? Well car horns are effected by the Doppler effect. It is an increase or decrease in the frequency of sound waves when a source or a person is moving towards or away from each other. It causes a change in the pitch of the sound.


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2017 at 12:43 PM

    This is pretty interesting, i never realized the amount of physics in a car horn.

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  2. AnonymousJune 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM

    Nice project. It was interesting to learn that car horns are based off of electromagnets.

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  3. AnonymousJune 6, 2017 at 5:41 PM

    Really like your concept map. This was very informative and helped me understand how car horns work

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  4. AnonymousJune 7, 2017 at 8:35 AM

    This project is cool because you can relate it to the Doppler effect formulas the we learned throughout the whole year.

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