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A train standing in a station-yard, blows a whistle of frequency 400Hz in still air. The wind starts blowing in the direction from the yard to the station with a speed of `10 ms^(-1)`. What are the frequency wavelength and speed of sound for an observer standing on the station.s platform? Is the situation exactly identical the case when the air is still and the observer runs towards the yard at a speed of `10 ms^(-1)` ? The speed of sound in still air can be taken as `340 ms^(-1)`

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400Hz, 0.875m, `350ms^(-1)`. No, because in this case, with respect to the medium both the observer and the source are in motion.
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