An essential skill in chemistry is communicating your ideas and findings and applying concepts you have learned. These are the primary objectives for this assignment. In this experiment, you will crush soda pop cans by boiling and inverting them into cold water. Dunking the tops of the cans causes them to be crushed by air pressure , but why? Why can't an empty spontaneously be crushed by air pressure?What is different about boiling water in the can and then inverting it in cold water? These are the foundational questions being investigated in the experiment After experimenting, you will create a formal lab report to communicate your findings. Apply concepts presented in Unit 3 and Unit 4 - Explain gas laws Solve gas law problems Apply periodicity rules to answer questions Create a formal lab report to commuricate the findings

This question is asking for an explanation of the gas laws and how they apply to the experiment described. The gas laws, such as Boyle's Law and Charles's Law, explain the behavior of gases under different conditions. In the experiment, the soda can is crushed when the hot water inside it cools down and condenses, creating a vacuum. This vacuum causes the atmospheric pressure outside the can to crush it. An empty can cannot be crushed by air pressure because there is no vacuum created. The difference between boiling water in the can and then inverting it in cold water is that the boiling water creates steam, which is a gas. When the can is inverted in cold water, the steam condenses into a liquid, creating a vacuum that crushes the can. The formal lab report would detail these findings and explain the gas laws that were applied.