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I've heard that the police are now using lasers in addition to radar to catch speeders on the highway. How does a laser measure the speed of a car? ( Preview )

 
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This question seems to provoke confusion between two very different ways to

measure speed: Doppler shifts (the change in frequency that occurs when a signal

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