From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 20:34:26 MDT
--- Jeff Davis <jrd1415@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To put it another way, if the victim has two radar
> receivers, one facing towards the incoming pulse to
> sample its frequency, and one mounted off a ways and
> pointed backwards to sample the reflected pulse,
> wouldn't they read the same frequency, and leave us
> back where we started?
Relativity. If they're not moving relative to the
radar gun, they see what the radar gun sees. If
they're not moving relative to the car, they *are*
moving relative to the radar gun, and their
measurements are (from the radar gun's point of view)
affected accordingly.
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