Egg drop lab physics
hi everyone, my friend and i have an egg drop lab tomorrow and we need some ideas :l. We must drop a chicken egg in a container that we make from a height of 5.5m without cracking it.
CONTAINER CAN'T INCLUDE: bubble wrap, Styrofoam. packing peanuts, liquids, glass or ceramic materials, and duct tape
MUST: have a mass of at least 100g, be in free fall (no parachutes), and must survive the fall with no cracks
IDEAS ARE WELCOME AND APPRECIATED
March 24, 2015
21 Comments • Newest first
The physics behind this is have enough room UNDER the egg at time of impact to not allow it to hit the floor. This is given that you have a slot/compartment that can safely harness the egg on the way down.
[quote=2005chuy]leave it up to a bunch of nerds to come up with unnecessarily complex designs. just wrap your egg in an entire roll of two-ply toilet paper. that's what i did and it survived just fine.[/quote]
When I did it, it could only use tape and straws. A friend just covered them with 1-2 layers of straws and it survived to everyone's surprise.
[quote=PwNpWnPwN]Thanks for all the replies i kinda got my own idea after taking pieces of everyone else's! Will post an update if anyone cares LOL[/quote]
Update would be cool !
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What I did for this in elementary school was cut a 2 liter soda bottle in half and use the bottom half. Stuff it with cotton and create a cardboard lid. Egg should be safe.
leave it up to a bunch of nerds to come up with unnecessarily complex designs. just wrap your egg in an entire roll of two-ply toilet paper. that's what i did and it survived just fine.
Thanks for all the replies i kinda got my own idea after taking pieces of everyone else's! Will post an update if anyone cares LOL
Would jello count as a liquid?
Step 1: locate jar of peanut butter.
Step 2: make sure you have two jars of peanut butter
Step 3: remove some peanut butter in first jar, making sure there is peanut butter on the outer part. and deep enough to have coverage.
Step 4: place egg in jar.
Step 5: cover top of egg in peanut butter.
Step 6: sell your soul to satan.
Step 7: nervously watch the egg being dropped in the jar.
Step 8. ?
Step 9: watch as you pass with an eggcellent grade.
Step 10: celebrate by eating the other jar of peanut butter right out of the jar.
I did this back in elementary school so obviously it was much much much easier but i remember I did some hexagonal sphere thing if that contributes any sort of idea.
Just don't be that guy who forgets about the experiment and ended up having his egg being dropped inside his pencil case as a last resort..
Get like a lot of balloons inflated with helium and when you drop it, it'll float away instead. To make it 100 grams put it in a basket that you will attach the balloons to.
Use straws.
wow 100g? that's pretty lenient for my experiment it couldn't be more than 20g
More eggs or a bag filled with shredded paper.
My high school also did this activity. The only materials allowed were straws, paper, and tape. The designs that generally win out are cubic frames made from straws with eight support straws going from the corners to the center, where the egg is held.
[quote=Nfeeble]Try to use rubber bands and sand, maybe? I'd create a web of rubber bands that would suspend the egg in the middle, almost like a spider's web. I feel like that would help dissipate the force from all angles and filling it with sand would only help more. Just my guess; I'm not a physicist.[/quote]
I kind of feel like the egg would bounce off once it hits the web.
If it were me, I think I would try to make some kind of slope. The egg falls into a slope and rolls to a stop. Like one of those Hot Wheels tracks.
EDIT: Wait, nevermind. I thought you were dropping the egg into a container and had to design a container to catch it.
[quote=GHSNinja]What if you're the container?
Hold it in you hands or mouth and free fall, then look to see if it cracked.
you're welcome[/quote]
ha, nice Modern Family reference
anyways im thinking something with straws? kinda like shaped like a 360 astrisk or some kind or sphere shape, the actual container could maybe be a section of the egg carton, the idea here would be to try and weaken the impact
or maybe go the opposite way and make it sturdy with tree branches
maybe use a hot glue gun to attach these
[quote=GHSNinja]What if you're the container?
Hold it in you hands or mouth and free fall, then look to see if it cracked.
you're welcome[/quote]
thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works
What if you're the container?
Hold it in you hands or mouth and free fall, then look to see if it cracked.
you're welcome
Sand
marshmallow lol