Application of Doppler effect

1. Sirens
Uses- Helps to give warning and
emergency signal to civilians
2. Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
Uses- Measure the depth of water, small scale currents,
and the speed of water moving across an entire water
column.
This device works by transmitting "pings" of sound at a
constant frequency into the water. As the sound waves
travel, they bounces off from particles suspended in the
moving water, and reflect back to the device. The
difference in frequency between the waves the profiler
sends out and the waves it receives is called the Doppler
shift. The instrument uses this shift to calculate how fast
the particle and the water around it are moving.
3. Police radar guns
Uses - The radar gun determines the speed of
the vehicle
Principle- measuring the difference between
the emitted frequency and the reflected
frequency and computing the speed from
that measurement.
4. Pulse Doppler radar
Uses- Measure the velocity of a target and
separate moving targets from stationary
target.