April 29, 2024
#2926: Doppler Effect explain
[Miss Lenhart is pointing with a stick to a whiteboard. There is an unreadable heading and two lines of unreadable text above a drawing of a spiral galaxy, this is what she points at. Below that there is a graph with a curve that looks like it is increasing exponentially. The line is going through a cloud of points, scattered on either side of the curve. Beneath the graph there is another unreadable line of text.]
Miss Lenhart: The more distant a galaxy is, the redder its light.
Miss Lenhart: Why? Well, that’s an interesting question.
[Zoom in on Miss Lenhart.]
Miss Lenhart: Ever notice how, when a siren is approaching, it sounds like Bweeeeeeeeee…
[Same setting but Miss Lenhart has raised her arms.]
Miss Lenhart: …but then it zooms past you and goes Nyeeeeooooowww?
Miss Lenhart: And sometimes they hit a button that makes it go Pyeew! Pyeew! really loud?
[Back to the original view with Miss Lenhart in front of the whiteboard. She is now raising a finger in the air while holding the stick down with her other hand. A student ask a question from off-panel.]
Miss Lenhart: And in Europe they go Ooooeeeeooooeeee…
Off-panel voice: So why are galaxies red?
Miss Lenhart: Oh, no idea.
Miss Lenhart: Anyway, another siren I like is…