DAY 3: CAN CRUSH LAB

Students present on Friday's class performed a lab that illustrates the effects of air pressure.   Many earned extra credit by bringing aluminum cans to class.  The data collected on their lab papers should be copied along with the setup information on those papers into their COMPOSITION BOOK.

What is students weren't present on Friday's class?  This video shows another group of students, doing essentially the same activity:




This LAB REPORT, inside their notebook, is what will be graded.   It will include a pair of drawings using colored pencils in which students attempt to explain what they have seen in class, and it will also feature their attempts to calculate the force involved in the lab. 

Those calculations can be summarized as follows: