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Homework Help: physics

Posted by amy on Friday, December 14, 2012 at 12:36pm.

The yellow line emitted by a helium discharge tube in the laboratory has a wavelength of 587 nm
The same yellow line in the helium spectrum of a star has a measured
wavelength of 590 nm.

Calculate the speed of the moving star.

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