"An analysis of the classical Doppler Effect"[1] revisited

2004/03/26 by Bernhard Rothenstein, Rothenstein, Bernhard, Corina Naforniţa +2
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Spaceflight effects on biology #physics.gen-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0403130

7 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2004/03/26 · openalex publication_date 2004/03/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

After having shown that the formula which describes the Doppler effect in the general case holds only in the case of the "very high" frequency assumption, we derive free of assumptions Doppler formulas for two scenarios presented in the revisited paper.

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