Courtesy of
the Swiss Cetacean Society
Joe Orca lives in the sea, where sound waves travel at roughly 1500 m/s. One day, as he swims North lazily at v = 3 m/s, he sends out a short pulse of sound waves at a frequency f1 = 10,000 Hz. Exactly 5.2 seconds later, he hears an echo ... but the frequency is now f3 = 10,145 Hz.
"Hmmm," thinks Joe, "could this be lunch?"