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  2. Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    Fast moving satellites can have a Doppler shift of dozens of kilohertz relative to a ground station. The speed, thus magnitude of Doppler effect, changes due to earth curvature. Dynamic Doppler compensation, where the frequency of a signal is changed progressively during transmission, is used so the satellite receives a constant frequency ...

  3. Relativistic Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency, wavelength and amplitude [1] of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the classical Doppler effect, first proposed by Christian Doppler in 1842 [2]), when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.

  4. Twin paradox - Wikipedia

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    The rate he can calculate for the image (corrected for Doppler effect) is the rate of the Earth twin's clock at the moment it was sent, not at the moment it was received. Since he receives an unequal number of red and blue shifted images, he should realize that the red and blue shifted emissions were not emitted over equal time periods for the ...

  5. Time dilation - Wikipedia

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    This lower frequency from the moving source can be attributed to the time dilation effect and is often called the transverse Doppler effect and was predicted by relativity. In 2010 time dilation was observed at speeds of less than 10 metres per second using optical atomic clocks connected by 75 metres of optical fiber. [26]

  6. Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. [1] [2] This is often the result of utilising instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A common example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire, which causes some of the air to escape, thereby ...

  7. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    If two events happen at the same time in the frame of the first observer, they will have identical values of the t-coordinate. However, if they have different values of the x -coordinate (different positions in the x -direction), they will have different values of the t' coordinate, so they will happen at different times in that frame.

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  9. Spectral line shape - Wikipedia

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    As the excited state decays exponentially in time this effect produces a line with Lorentzian shape in terms of frequency (or wavenumber). Doppler broadening. This is caused by the fact that the velocity of atoms or molecules relative to the observer follows a Maxwell distribution, so the effect is dependent on temperature. If this were the ...