Describe a simple experiment to show that the prongs of a sound producing tuning fork are vibrating.
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Fill water in a beaker up to its brim. Touch the surface of water with the prongs of a sound making tuning fork (which has been struck on a hard rubber pad). The prongs of tuning fork producing sound splash water. This shows that the prongs of a sound producing tuning fork are vibrating (moving forwards and backwards rapidly).

The prongs of a sound producing tuning fork splash water, so they are vibrating.
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