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I'm in a spaceship very far away from earth but traveling straight towards earth with a speed v. It's boring out here, so I decide to try and tune in to some of my favorite earthly radio stations. I remember that my favorite station has a frequency of 100.3 MHz and so tune my radio to exactly this frequency. Amazingly, I hear the radio station just like I do on earth! How fast is my spaceship going in m/s? (Hint: it's not that fast...I think I should check whether my engines are on).

Details and assumptions Photons of electromagnetic radiation have an intrinsic kinetic energy related to their frequency by E=hf where h is Planck's constant. The gravitational interaction between photons and earth can be treated via usual Newtonian gravity and E=mc2 to convert between energy and mass. The total energy of the photons is conserved. The earth can be treated as a sphere of radius 6370 km and mass 6×1024 kg. You can ignore rotation of the earth. The speed of light is 3×108 m/s.

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Cheating!

Zi Song Yeoh - 8 years, 4 months ago

Careful with your posts, you might get demerits (or even worse, i hope not).

Francis Gerard Magtibay - 8 years, 4 months ago

don't just copy paste a problem which everyone can already see also giving hints would be cheating

Rohan Singh - 8 years, 4 months ago

did you get the answer

A Former Brilliant Member - 8 years, 4 months ago

Is it related to doppler effect ?

Vicky Bro - 8 years, 4 months ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$