A loudspeaker at the front of a room and an identical loudspeaker at the rear of the room are being driven by the same oscillator at 456 Hz. A student walks at a uniform rate of 1.50 m/s along the length of the room. She hears a single tone, repeatedly becoming louder and softer.
(a) Model these variations as beats between the Doppler-shifted sounds the student receives. Calculate the number of beats the student hears each second.
(b) What If? Model the two speakers as producing a standing wave in the room and the student as walking between antinodes. Calculate the number of intensity maxima the student hears each second.