Doppler effect
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In contrast, ultrasound imaging, considered safe enough for fetal monitoring, utilizes the Doppler effect to measure real-time blood flow velocity and direction without the need for contrast agents.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Their speeds would be carefully calibrated to create different layers of the Doppler effect, or the bending in a note that we perceive when sound passes us by.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Sometimes I go to sleep to the bizarre Doppler effect of planes that sound as if they’re about to crash into my house.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023
They emit light at specific wavelengths, which the gases’ swirling motion smears into “broad emission lines” through the Doppler effect.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2023
The Doppler effect is the key to cosmology. explosions, that produced any particular sample of magnesium.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
