Doppler and the Doppler Effect.

Abstract

A summary is given of Doppler's life and career. He was born 180 years ago on 29 Nov 1803 in Salzburg, Austria. He died on 17 Mar 1853 in Venice. The effect bearing his name was first announced in a presentation before the Royal Bohemian Society of the Sciences in Prague on 25 May 1842. Doppler considered his work a generalization of the aberration theorem as discovered by Bradley. With it came the inference that the perception of physical phenomena can change with the state of motion of the observer. Acceptance of the principle was not without controversy. In 1852, the mathematician Petzval claimed that no useful scientific deductions can be made from Doppler's elementary equations. In 1860, Ernst Mach resolved the misunderstanding that clouded this controversy. The Doppler effect is alive and well. Its role in radio science and related disciplines is enumerated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA143240

Entities

People

  • K. Toman

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Doppler Effect
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Observers
  • Physical Properties
  • Physics
  • Relative Motion
  • Scattering
  • Schools
  • Spectra
  • Stars
  • Time Intervals
  • Universities
  • Waves

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  • Academic Conference Management
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

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  • AI & ML