A speeding motorcyclist sees traffic jam ahead of him. He slows down to 36km/h. He finds that traffic has eased and a car moving ahead of him at 18km/h is honking at a frequency of 1392Hz. If the speed of sound is 343m/s, the frequency of the honk as heard by him will be
When a source of sound and an observer are moving towards each other, the apparent frequency heard by the observer is higher than the actual frequency due to the Doppler effect. Since the motorcyclist is moving towards the car, the frequency heard by him is higher than the actual honk frequency.