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"Sound needs a medium for propagation". Justify with an experiment.

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Solution :Sound needs a material LIKE air, WATER, steel, etc. for its propagation. It cannot travel through vacuum. This can be demonstrated by the Bell-Jar experiment.

An electric bell and an airtight glass jar are taken. The electric bell is SUSPENDED inside the airtight jar. The jar is connected to a vacuum pump. If the bell is made to ring, we will be able to HEAR the sound of the bell. Now when the jar is EVACUATED with the vacuum pump, the air in the jar is pumped out gradually and the sound becomes feebler and feebler. We will not hear any sound, if the air is fully removed (if the jar has vacuum).


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