You stand in your yard and hold a battery-powered buzzer that is emitting a frequency of (560

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You stand in your yard and hold a battery-powered buzzer that is emitting a frequency of \(560 \mathrm{~Hz}\) as a friend stands next to you.

(a) What frequency does your friend hear if you throw the buzzer away from you with a speed of \(18.0 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}\) ?

(b) You and your friend now get on a flat railroad car that begins to travel at \(12.0 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}\), and you throw the buzzer in the direction opposite the direction of the car's velocity. What frequency does your friend hear?

(c) What frequency would a person standing alongside the tracks hear?

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