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159. A highway patrolman sitting in his car measures the speed of a car on the highway using radar.  It uses the difference in the frequency between the incident and reflected radar waves.  This illustrates 
    
A. diffraction The Doppler effect is the difference in frequency between the waves when the source of the wave and the observer are moving in respect to each other.

The reflected wave is the source and the radar gun is the observer.  It is comparing the reflected wave to the original wave.

The Correct Answer is C.

B. critical angle
C. Doppler effect
D. dispersion