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A distant star has a transverse speed (perpendicular to our line of sight) of 30,000 km/s with respect to Earth.Its spectrum has an absorption line at a frequency of 5.00 x 1014 Hz.What is the frequency of that line as observed on Earth?


A) 4.50 x 1014 Hz
B) 4.90 x 1014 Hz
C) 4.97 x 1014 Hz
D) 5.00 x 1014 Hz
E) 5.04 x 1014 Hz

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