The Deflated Can 🙊

In chemistry class we've been learning about the behavior of gas. We learned that the particle of gas are in constant motion they never stop. The paritcles could never lose energy because the have elastic collisions. That's when the particles collide and the energy is transferred to the particle it collided with. We also learned that pressure volume and temperature are all related. Temperature and pressure have a direct relationship. The higher the temperature the higher the pressure, the lower the temperature the lower the pressure. Volume and pressure have an indirect relationship. If there's more volume theres less pressure, if there's less volume it's more pressure. So we did this experience with a pop can. You first had to put 10ml of water into the can and put it over the flame.

You had to hold the can over the fire with the tongues until it started to boil. Ways you knew the water was boiling was because if you listened closely you could hear it, you could see the steam come out of the top of the can, or you would feel a tiny vibration threw the tongues. Once the water started to boil you would put the can face down into cold water. You couldn't just sit it on top of the water you would have to plug it into the water otherwise it wouldn't work. When you did this the can would deflate or crumble.

I believed the reason the can crumbled like this was because of sudden change of temperature. When you put the can over the flame it caused the particles to move faster and create more pressure because when temperature increases so does pressure. Then when you put the hot can face down in the cold water it was a change in temperature. So the particles slowed down a lot really fast causing the can to crumble. because the change was so sudden the can crushed.