The Doppler Effect for light proposes that when the source of light approaches, then the frequency increases and the wavelength decreases.
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The equation of the doppler effect for light is significantly more complicated than for sound, however, for small speed of the source (relative to the speed of light) we can simply:
The light coming from galaxies shows a red-shift. This supports the argument of the ‘expanding universe’
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