For each star, determine how its light would be shifted. Not all choices may be used, and some may be used more than once. A blue giant moving away from Earth at 39.9 km/s A yellow dwarf moving transversely at 16.3 km/s A red giant moving towards Earth at 22.7 km/s A blue dwarf moving away from Earth at 37.9 km/s A blue giant moving transversely at 30.1 km/s

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Answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem we have to consider the general red shift equation

[tex]1+z=\frac{1+vcos(\theta)/c}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}[/tex]

z=red shift

v=speed of the object

c=speed of light

θ=angle between earth and relative motion of the object

- For objects moving away θ=0 and for relative transverse motion θ=90°. Hence we have for both class of motion

[tex]1+z_{(\theta=0)}=\frac{1+v/c}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}\\1+z_{(\theta=90)}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}\\[/tex]

a)

for the blue giant

[tex]z=\frac{1+(39.9*10^3m/s)/(3*10^8m/s^2)}{\sqrt{1-(39.9*10^3m/s)^2/(3*10^8m/s^2)}}-1\\z=1.33*10^{-4}[/tex]

b)

for the yellow dwarf

[tex]z=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-(16.3*10^{3}m/s)^2/(3*10^8)^2}}-1\\z=1.48*10^{-9}[/tex]

c)

and in the same way for the red giant (but with an angle of 180°)

z = -7.56*10^{-5}

e)

and for the blue dwarf

z = 7.98*10^{-9}

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